Word: holliday
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...that their critics may be as successful as the antismoking groups that have sharply curbed tobacco marketing over the past 25 years. After requiring warning labels on cigarette packages in 1965, Congress ) in 1971 banned radio and TV cigarette ads. Says John Ferrell, chief creative officer of the Hill, Holliday agency: "I was working on the Marlboro campaign when the TV-advertising ban came down. I think the same thing is going to happen with beer and wine. It is inevitable." Brewers are especially worried about curbs on broadcast ads, since their primary target group of young men is best...
...asks whether love is really forever when the young, beautiful person you married is suddenly a dying old man. Writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene have an off-Broadway winner, on its way to Broadway, and Mary- Louise Parker is the most fetching dizball leading lady since Judy Holliday...
...result, the accents are from Mars. Otherwise there is nothing to fault, from William Dudley's pillow-strewn, louvered-door set to Mark Henderson's offstage fireworks. Film veteran Charles Durning brings beguiling malice to Big Daddy, capturing the crass vitality of this aging self-made entrepreneur, while Polly Holliday, Flo on CBS-TV's erstwhile Alice, is all fluttering and giggles and connivance as his soon-to-be widow...
Born in Minneapolis to a jazz-guitarist father and a 14-year-old mother, Morgan was playing club dates in Los Angeles when he was still a teenager. He'd back up Billie Holliday or Josephine Baker at night, then go to high school during the day. By 17, he had himself a heroin habit. He received a stern lecture on the evils of using hard drugs from the Yardbird, who undercut his position by promptly sampling Morgan's stash. "Like it or no," Morgan says, "what he was saying was not nearly as loud as what he was doing...
Dreamgirls (1981). Michael Bennett, creator of A Chorus Line, shaped this propulsive story of black entertainers fighting for integrity while entering the mainstream. It suggested that key civil rights gains came when white youths accepted black music as "theirs." Jennifer Holliday gave the musical performance of the decade as a gutsy gospel-blues shouter...