Word: hbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cray sang with Tina Turner for her HBO special, due out this winter, and recently showed up in St. Louis for Chuck Berry's 60th birthday party, a concert extravaganza that featured such luminaries as Keith Richards and Linda Ronstadt and was filmed for theatrical release next year. Cray sang two Berry classics, Come On and Brown-Eyed Handsome Man, and admits, "That was a real kick. But it was also intimidating...
Here's Emo the Pragmatist, the one who has "a plan to get Hasenfus out of Nicaragua--trade Daniloff for him." In March, this Renaissance man of comedy can be seen in "HBO On Location," and in April he will be releasing a new album on Epic Records and appearing in the film remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth...
...Jack Nicholson, Bette Midler, Jane Fonda and some 500 others who shelled out an astronomical $2,500 apiece for veal from Spago (very haute) and a backyard concert (very hot). Organized by the Hollywood Women's Political Committee to support six Democratic senatorial candidates, the affair was taped by HBO. Streisand crooned old favorites (People, The Way We Were) as well as new variations (Throw Out the Clowns), explaining that she felt she "must sing again to raise money so that we send people to Washington who will solve problems, not create them." The following evening, the Gipper struck back...
...rest of the country will hear about the goings-on in Grand Rapids. Good Morning, America is moving in. HBO plans a show. Arbor House is scheduling a book. The President's foundation gets the profit from the $500 dinner tickets and $10-to-$25 tickets to the public sessions...
...politics, family problems: all familiar themes on the opera stage, but usually performed by a cast of thousands. Last week Comic Robin Williams, 34, filled the cavernous stage of New York City's Metropolitan Opera House all by himself for two sold-out shows that were taped by HBO for a broadcast special. As usual, his seemingly extemporaneous material was achingly funny, mostly ribald and partly tailored to his surroundings: "Imagine Pavarotti at the Improv (comedy club)," he mused. Saluting the opera house itself, Williams called its huge crystal chandeliers "earrings from the Imelda Marcos collection...