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...that your defenses are up from the outset of this spoofy musical. Then its cheery, self-mocking inventiveness wins you over. A lonely-guy theater buff (played by co-writer Bob Martin) puts on his LP of a fictional 1928 musical, and, faster than you can say Flo Ziegfeld, it materializes in his apartment. There's a Broadway diva, a scheming producer, gooey love songs and stock comic sidekicks. Best of all, there's the sensational Sutton Foster, who, in one knockout number, spins plates, does cartwheels and pulls out every other stop just to prove, as she sings...
...made her first impression in a portrayal of Marilyn Monroe for the 1980 TV movie Marilyn, the Untold Story. But Catherine Hicks did not expect to impersonate another sex symbol when she signed up for Fever Pitch. Hicks, 34, plays a Las Vegas cocktail waitress named Flo who, it turns out, bears more than a passing resemblance to Marlene Dietrich. Hicks took on the look of the legendary German actress after Director Richard Brooks suggested that she dress like an old-time movie star instead of your typical casino bunny. "I always loved The Blue Angel," said the star...
...last people in the world to listen to A Prairie Home Companion. So he says. The small town of Isle, Minn., on a lake called Mille Lacs, suggested some of the physical characteristics of Lake Wobegon, but he says that except for his aunt Eleanor Johnson, who is Aunt Flo in the book, he did not really know the people who lived there. Lake Wobegon is elusive. The early surveyors mapped Minnesota in quadrants, he explains in his book, beginning at the edges of the state and working toward the center, where it turned out there was some overlap...
...Flo Broadway lyricist Fred Ebb, who died this past month [MILESTONES, Sept. 27], collaborated with composer John Kander on a remarkable string of theatrical successes. They first teamed up on Broadway with the 1965 musical Flora, the Red Menace, starring Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland's daughter. In a cover story on Liza, TIME described Ebb's musical connection with...
BRAINS OF THE HOUSE: Plump, blond wife Flo...