Word: impresario
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...copyrights on most of the Beatles' hit songs), a theater chain, toys and bowling alleys. Last week in London, after ATV directors reported record 1970-71 profits of $10.4 million after taxes, Chairman Lord Renwick hardly exaggerated when he praised Sir Lew as British television's "supreme impresario...
...Jones. The Gilliatts split when she ran off with Playwright John Osborne (Look Back in Anger). After five years of volatile marriage, she and Osborne called it finis. She got custody of their only child, Nolan Kate. For a brief time she had a rather deep friendship with Critic-Impresario Kenneth Tynan (Oh! Calcutta!). The New Yorker, enchanted with her work, brought her Stateside to write their film critiques from April...
Ellen Stewart, D.F.A., impresario of New York City's Café La Mama theater...
Follies is almost sans plot. Just before his old Broadway theater is to be torn down, Impresario Dmitri Weismann (read Flo Ziegfeld) orders a first and last reunion of his celebrated personnel. All the familiar types attend: Phyllis, the leggy brunette (Alexis Smith) who married well; Sally, the third-from-the-left blonde (Dorothy Collins) who didn't. The bolero-dancing couple (Victor Griffin and Jayne Turner) who bought a Fred Astaire franchise ("Styles change; you never can tell"), the wisecracking queen bee (Yvonne De Carlo) with her hive of young drones; the feathery Continental (Justine Johnston) who remembers Franz...
...bearded like the pard, Prince is one of the theater's most formidable figures. At 26 he co-produced his first show, Pajama Game. Four years later he was enough of a Broadway inside joke to be lampooned as the hyperthyroid boy-wonder impresario of Say, Darling. The producer of such hits as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof, and producer-director of Cabaret, Company and Follies, he is not treated like a figure of fun any more...