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...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...
Agencies seeking to correct that lapse are being careful about how they portray those generations because research is showing that older consumers have an angry distaste for the traditional advertising images of frail and dotty elders. Says John Ferrell, chief creative officer for the Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos agency: "The way that older people are depicted has changed dramatically. We learned they do not always want to be shown pitching horseshoes, rocking in a chair and watching life...
...leading players, each familiar from a TV series. Alas, those are just about the final occasions for enthusiasm in the labored, preachy and mostly unfunny revival of Born Yesterday that opened on Broadway this week. When the show debuted in 1946, it made stars of Paul Douglas and Judy Holliday and cemented the reputation of playwright Garson Kanin as a wry social commentator...