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...summing up of his invaluable career. For audiences who know what came after, how entertaining is this journey to the bottom of Robbins' trunk? If Broadway is not making 'em the way it used to, should we be regretful? Or relieved? If neither revivals from Broadway's heyday nor imitations of that style lead to commercial success, then does this logical next step, a greatest-hits compendium, offer much hope...
...brief heyday of bipartisanship was in the Truman years, when a Democratic Administration enlisted the support of a pre-World War II isolationist Republican, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, in the postwar reconstruction of Europe. But Vandenberg later joined in highly partisan attacks on the Democrats for "losing" China and "letting" the Soviet Union acquire the atom bomb...
...cutting a new path. Letterman's influence will be evident in both shows: each, for example, plans to take the camera outside the studio occasionally. But mostly the newcomers are following the old-fashioned approach: a band, a couch and an easygoing, plain-folks appeal. Not since the heyday of Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas have talk shows been so user friendly...
...Brigadoon, My Fair Lady and Camelot, he reportedly said he could not get over how easy he and his partner made it all seem. Loewe was right, but in retrospect the most startling thing about the team's success is that their creativity was far from unique. In the heyday of Broadway musicals, nearly every season brought a landmark production, often two or three. The 1946-47 season that introduced Brigadoon, for example, also provided Finian's Rainbow. The 1956-57 season of My Fair Lady was, in addition, the season of Bells Are Ringing, Candide, The Most Happy Fella...
...apparent extortion scheme suggests that the current intrigue between the Mob and Hollywood may be every bit as spicy as it was in Lansky's heyday. MCA, Inc., the conglomerate seeking video rights to the movie, has suspended Eugene Giaquinto, president of its Home Entertainment Group, following reports that the FBI was investigating his possible ties to organized crime. For at least a year, FBI agents have been tapping the phones of Giaquinto and others in the industry who were heard discussing contacts with mobsters like New York's Gambino-family boss, John Gotti. The eavesdroppers have listened to talk...