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Entertainment shows, meanwhile, are facing a cost squeeze. Hollywood producers, who must negotiate with the tight-fisted networks over fees to cover their production costs, are avoiding shows with elaborate action scenes and expensive locations (partly because such shows are doing poorly on the rerun market). "I sit in on...
Nuclear-arms negotiation does not sound like a promising topic for a play, particularly not for a comedy. Visions come to mind of tables thumped and warheads somberly debated, of apocalypse incurred by accident or satirized with Dr. Strangelove glee. The pop-culture memory remains cluttered with the tendentious alarmism...
As controversy swirled around the alleged pressure on the Fed, Baker kept quiet. Privately, though, Administration aides were appalled that the issue had flared up. Whether or not Baker agreed with Darby's views, the Secretary apparently had not authorized the economist's letter and was annoyed at the ham...
When engaged in a musical discussion, Lloyd Webber fairly bursts with enthusiasm, sometimes speaking so fast he begins to trip over his tongue. He can sit at the piano for hours, discoursing on composers from Rodgers to Prokofiev. On more personal topics he is reticent. He is particularly uncomfortable about...
UConn's Chris Reif thought he had Hall beat in Harvard's NCAA quarterfinal win over the Huskies. Reif broke away from his defenders with seven seconds remaining in regulation and sent a shot flying at the left corner of net. Hall's diving, one-fisted save kept the fans...