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...KANSAS CITY--The Royals spent more time fighting in the clubhouse that they did thinking about winning last year. Despite manager Hack McKeon, the Royals will land in third...
...Have Nothing to Declare but My Genius is full of fizz and vinegar. It is a magnificently spiteful spoof about a rich, prolific hack written by a man who frequently describes himself as a bleeder and a firm believer "that easy writ ing makes hard reading." The hack is the kind of man who dashes off a few mysteries before breakfast and boasts of popularizing Shakespeare so that he will be "comprehensible to the veriest moron ... to even a rock fan." He is also a painter with a worldwide reputation...
...been overlooked for an Oscar. "Everyone said you're a shoo-in for The Gambler - then nothing." Now he is not sure where he stands. "I have a feeling the moment you do something different, the way Brando has done, they're just waiting to hack you to pieces...
...create events? Was he a gifted charlatan, or Moses redivivus? It is only certain that he appeared and disappeared as if on celestial cue, leaving his work to more stable founders and builders. Unhappily, as this biography reluctantly demonstrates, the man was all too human-a naif, a hack and a monomaniac. Probably a touch of madness ran in his blood: two of his three children were suicides; so was his only grandchild. But he did have the inexplicable gift of prophecy. In the operetta that was old Europe, he looked through the gilt backdrop and saw the flames...
This year, LaZebnik wrote a new show, Mad About Mintz, a musical comedy about the efforts of an advertising agency to convert a hack poet into the best-selling bard of the country. Armed with a volunteer orchestra and a full production team. LaZebnik tackled Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid for funds to produce the show in Agassiz. The society had a reputation for supporting original musicals, having produced Suffragette in 1973 (now playing successfully in New York) and others before that. But after more than a months deliberation, the Advisory Board of Grant-In-Aid rejected the show, claiming that...