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...speaker is not a madman, nor is he running a fun house or shifting the population of a prison across a body of water. He is Chris Mahan, executive stage manager of the Metropolitan Opera, unwinding after a rehearsal of Berlioz's Les Troyens, the crown jewel in a season beset by financial and artistic problems. First performed last fall [TIME, Nov. 5], it is back again this month. The eleven performances are the first ever in New York City, and the work has been staged only twice previously...
...Jewel. No one markets a movie better than Paramount's own odd couple (see boxes pages 88 and 89). An industrial-diamond-in-the-rough, Yablans, 38, orders the world around like a drill sergeant and employs a primal scream as casually as most people sneeze. The slight, agile Evans, 43, given to longpoint collars and cashmere sweaters, projects a kind of artless charm and wide-eyed aestheticism. But he is as obsessive about what he wants and is credited with being the figure who has, in show-business parlance, turned Paramount around. He runs day-to-day production...
Still, when Yablans announces that "there has never been a promotion campaign like this before," he dutifully adds that "Bob and I did it totally together, and it began the day we decided to do the film. We target one jewel a year. Once the gem is decided upon, then we work on the mounting. And we make an incredible setting." Yablans calculates that the "totally choreographed" campaign has created some 1.5 billion impressions of Gatsby in the collective moviegoing mind, a statistic as unprovable as it is absurd. More important to Yablans, who is tightfisted as well...
...reasons still not clear, Cain's influence in the Mob had waned by early in 1973. Some longtime Mafia observers believe that Giancana and Cain had a serious dispute. Others believe that a band of jewel thieves he had fallen in with decided that he could no longer be trusted. Why was he killed? Said one Chicago police investigator: "He knew too much." Added Charles Siragusa, executive director of the Illinois Legislative Investigating Commission: "He may have committed the unpardonable sin-talking to both sides...
...LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. Lovely to look at, delightful to listen to, this jewel box of a show won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best musical...