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...most ambitious of the current efforts is They Shoot Horses, Don't They? The gritty, poignant musical about a Depression-era dance marathon is derived from the same Horace McCoy novel as the 1969 film starring Gig Young and Jane Fonda. The phenomenon of the endurance dance is grimly compelling in itself: couples shuffling around the clock for months, withstanding exhaustion, injury and humiliation in pursuit of the cash prize for the last pair standing. But the script evokes the '80s as well as the '30s and suggests the sick symbiosis, then and now, between would-be stars grabbing...
Rudy's New Gig...
...stop. The Big Apple is a two-elephant circus. That is how a circus used to be advertised, by the elephant-count. In the late nineteenth century, circus owners competed for the elephant crown. In 1881, Barnum had four elephants, Forepaugh had five, and the Sells Brothers called their gig the "Great European Seven Elephant Railroad Show." No match for Pompey, who is 61 B.C. advertised a celebration at the Circus Maximus in his own honor and promised that five hundred lions and twenty pachyderms would be slain...
...Ireland, a script by the actor Tom Berenger. He hangs up. "These are all projects that interest me," he says of the various movies he's trying to get made. "They say, 'The ((movie principals)) will think you're not doing it for art, but just for the gig.' " Altman's not really angry, just a tad . . . frustrated that at this late date he is obliged to convince agents of his artistic integrity...
...ever did it is stepping down," says Dennis Miller, host of a new late-night show that hopes to pick up some of the viewers that Carson leaves behind. "I've been doing this for 30 shows, and he did it for 30 years. It's a tough gig, and he still looks like he enjoys it." Dick Cavett, who once wrote for Carson and later squared off against him as a rival host, praises Carson's skills both onstage and off. "He has the ability to pick good material, to budget his energy, to fire the right people," says...