Word: impresarios
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...talent scout for the new Administration. Right away the company had big plans for him to help it pull the right levers with the government, according to an internal Molten memo. But Knight's role was larger than that of the traditional lobbyist, more like that of a corporate impresario. When the company needed credibility to build early capital, Knight arranged for Grum-bly of the Energy Department to attend the plant's ribbon-cutting ceremony, at which he touted the firm and suggested it could qualify for up to $200 million in grants from his department. When Molten sought...
DIED. SIR RUDOLPH BING, 95, witty, authoritarian impresario who called the tunes at the Metropolitan Opera for 22 years; after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease; in New York City. Bing broke new ground as general manager of the Met--moving the company to Lincoln Center, introducing its first black performers, and building it into a first-class opera house. His ear for singers was equally discriminating--though he never quite lived down firing Maria Callas...
...weird thing about She's So Lovely is that a script by the impresario of improv, directed by his son, should become a tight, slight, goofy romance. As the lovestruck Eddie, Sean Penn denounces his wife's perfume as "a good smell to cover up bad smell." John Travolta, as the second husband of Eddie's beloved Maureen (Robin Wright Penn), snaps at his young stepdaughter, "You haven't lived long enough for me to argue with you. You're just a glorified piece of blue sky." The film has the soul of a sailor after a few drinks...
...Kramer's reputation is stale, Coe's is forgotten, though as producer of Philco Playhouse and later for Playhouse 90, he was the primo impresario of TV drama. Jon Krampner's engrossing The Man in the Shadows: Fred Coe and the Golden Age of Television (Rutgers University Press; 243 pages; $32.95) helps restore the stature of the Tennessean who made trouble in the studio and at home--he told his pregnant wife, "When the child is born, I want a divorce"--but was still one of TV's smartest, boldest pioneers...
...triumph for the stage and for Drabinsky, the brash impresario who has come from the Great White North to show the Great White Way how to do it. Unlike traditional Broadway production organizations, Drabinsky's Toronto-based Livent Inc. not only owns theaters (six of them, open or being renovated, in Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago and on 42nd Street in Manhattan) but also seeks to fill them with homegrown shows that Drabinsky initiates from scratch. Livent uses profits from long-running road companies to finance new works, which may run a year or more in cities like Toronto before going...