Word: evening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even though the 33 magazines have a joint circulation of 60 million, one editor at least had few illusions about their collective clout, especially head to head with Opposition Leader Phyllis Schlafly. Says Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown: "All the women's magazines together may not be as effective as Phyllis Schlafly with her rabble-rousing TV appearances. But we hope reason will prevail...
...Even a demonstrably lesser drama, such as Ladyhouse Blues at Manhattan's Theater of St. Peter's Church, shows the deep affinity linking the family with the emotions and experiences that fire up a stage. Within the family-sometimes at scalding intensity-we get our first inklings of the nature of love, hate, time, memory, remorse and reconciliation...
...great movie. A cheeky kid becomes the country's top box office draw, goes off to war, comes back and discovers that nobody loves a 30-year-old brat. He spends too much, drinks too much and wives too much. At the studios, they don't even know his name, except as a joke. He gets older, paunchier and balder, but though few seem to know it, he is still one of the best actors in the business. Then he finds himself in his first Broadway show. It opens, the critics turn handsprings, and that cheeky...
...Mickey's success in Broadway's new hit, Sugar Babies, that happy send-off to burlesque, may very well boost his career back into orbit. Rarely has so much energy been packed into so small a package. Rooney dances, he sings, he mugs, he dresses in drag. Even when he's offstage, he's on, and his raucous laugh can be heard from the wings. "Seldom does a person get a second chance in life," he says. "Up until Sugar Babies, Mickey Rooney was a famous has-been...
...Even Mickey admits that Mickey can be difficult. His present wife, a country-and-western singer whose performing name is Jan Chamberlin, lived with him several years before she agreed to become the eighth Mrs. Rooney. "Naturally, I was frightened because of his track record," she says. "I still am." Their chief problems center on her singing. Mickey tries to run her career for her. "He wants the complete say-so about everything," she sighs. While he has been touring with Sugar Babies, Jan, 40, has stayed at their home, just north of Los Angeles, which they share with...