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...Great White Way nine months ago, he is the composer of two musicals, Jekyll & Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel, which have survived mostly scathing reviews to become box-office successes. A self-described "blue-collar professional songwriter" who has supplied material for the likes of Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston, he now has enough theater projects to keep him busy into the next millennium, and maybe the one after that. His favorite star, Linda Eder, is also his live-in companion--and next May will become his wife. "I wake up every morning," he attests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: GRABBING HIS MOMENT | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...movie set, there are two tricks to keeping the crew happy: hot food and visits from former heads of state. So BRUCE WILLIS--action hero and hard-core Republican--brought GEORGE BUSH to show-and-tell while shooting his upcoming film Armageddon near Houston. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer said the crew was impressed. Not that Bruce needed a status boost, of course. "I think Bruce has a cool factor," says Bruckheimer, "that goes beyond the fact our ex-President showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 1, 1997 | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...Moonies. Followers of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon are spending the next few days sending out a lot of very similar wedding invitations for what they expect to be their biggest mass wedding yet, on Nov. 29 at Washington's R.F.K. Stadium, where they will be serenaded by WHITNEY HOUSTON. Using a line already made popular by Bill Cosby before her, Houston claims she simply had no idea that the seven-figure deal she signed for her 45-minute gig was for a Moonie event. When most people accept a million-plus offer, their lawyers check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 24, 1997 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...filleting of the Florida Marlins began yesterday as the world champions traded a $5 million a year contract in the person of outfielder Moises Alou to the Houston Astros for two minor league pitchers who will work for considerably less. Owner Wayne Huizenga and Don Smiley, who heads a group trying to buy the team, have pledged to slice the Marlins payroll to a lean $20 million. Enjoy that trophy, Marlins fans ? its the last bit of hardware you'll see in South Florida for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Fillet O' Marlin | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

Since then, largely through his own doing, Brown has become better known as a volatile tabloid spectacle--throwing punches on disco floors and inexplicably vanishing from New Edition's reunion tour. There have also been frequent rumors of turbulent relations with his wife, pop queen Whitney Houston, in which Brown is usually cast as the heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: BOBBY BROWN: SPIN CONTROL | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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