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...approach to the high-jump bar at the Garden had been styled to accommodate the high-stepping Stones, who begins his Fosbury flop from the right side. Embree was forced to shorten his steps, but said this made little difference...
...deal with economic distress largely in terms of symptoms, local color and superficial how-to guides. The Detroit Free Press, to its credit, recently supplemented coverage of auto industry layoffs with a useful story on how to navigate the maze of local bureaucracies disbursing unemployment benefits. But many papers flop even in such routine backyard reporting. During the fall, for example, the Atlanta Constitution did several stories on layoffs in auto plants elsewhere, but delayed in mentioning whether factories in its own circulation area would be hit (they soon were). Its sister paper, the Journal, ran a carelessly frightening headline...
...production of Follies, which was almost unanimously praised by the critics but which lost $665,000. Although he is happy he did Follies, Prince says he could not do it again because he "could not in all conscience raise the money for it," not because it was a financial flop but because its subject was really the death of the Broadway musical. He quotes a review that appeared in The Crimson as summing it up best: "...there is no getting around the fact that a large part of the chilling fascination of Follies is that its creators are in essence...
...Rivalry. There has been only one Shaffer flop to date, The Battle of Shrivings, about the pitting of a peace movement leader, rather like Bertrand Russell, against an errant disciple. Ironically it opened within weeks of his brother Anthony's hit Sleuth in 1970. Peter says there is no fraternal rivalry; he suggested that Anthony, who was making films for TV, try writing again...
...show was the Broadway musicalization of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. After disastrous previews, Breakfast was ceremoniously folded by Producer David Merrick, who was no kinder to Mary than he was to Valerie; the Prince of Darkness referred to the flop as "my Bay of Pigs...