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...Forbidden Broadway fills the house by poking fun at the hits...
...wicked words do not explain what is going on, the laughter from the audience does. As it celebrated its first anniversary last week, Forbidden Broadway was standing-room only, one of the hottest tickets in town. Many people come for updates; 60% of the material is different from when the show opened. This parody of the real Broadway is imitating the hits in more ways than one: a Los Angeles company will open at the Comedy Store in April; there may be other productions in Boston and San Francisco and a cable show too. In a time when big-budget...
...instigator of all this deviltry is Gerard Alessandrini, 29, a deceptively mild, cherubic-looking singer-composer who admits to having a lifelong crush on the musical theater. Though it may not seem so at first hearing, Forbidden Broadway is actually a love letter to the real thing. "Some people have said to me that there's a lot of anger in the material," says Alessandrini. "If so, I didn't realize it. What I hope comes through is our appreciation of Broadway. I'd gladly switch places with any of those people we spoof...
...other major problem is the proliferation of PACs established to support or oppose a candidate that are operated "independent" of the official campaign committee. While Presidential candidates who choose to receive public funds are forbidden to accept any private contribution or coordinate outside expenditures, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that restricting the expenditures of those independent committees was a violation of their freedoms of speech and association rights. However, the "independent" status of the PACs which supported Ronald Reagan in 1980 to the tune of $21.5 million is a matter of some debate. Sen. Jesse Helms...
...India it is a sign of status. In Saudi Arabia it is a virtual oasis in a cultural desert. In China it is a window on a forbidden world. It is the video cassette recorder (VCR). As sales of the machine move into fast forward around the world (Japanese manufacturers, the world's leaders, have shipped 3.5 million units to Europe during the first three quarters of this year, a leap of 196% over last year), it threatens to replace the television aerial as the most familiar symbol of the global village...