Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game, kid...
...means a lot, kid...
...this one: shy middle-class British kid grows up listening to Mozart and Richard Rodgers, teams with buddy to write school musical, is discovered by slumming music critic, goes on to pen smash biblical epic Jesus Christ Superstar and monster hit Evita, splits with pal, has megatriumphs with Cats and Starlight Express, then comes up with extra-hot spook, The Phantom of the Opera. Along the way swaps bell-bottoms for swank Belgravia flat, 1,350-acre English country estate, choice property on the French Riviera, $6 million apartment in Manhattan, private jet, beautiful second wife and a worldwide musical...
...Like a John Steinbeck traveling without his dog Charley, Madden is turning his journey into the third (and probably last) book. "I enjoy writing them a lot more than reading them," he says. "It's like I never watch tapes of the broadcasts. I was that way as a kid. I never looked at the photographs. When people hear their voice on a tape recorder, they can't believe that's the way they really sound. I don't want to hear it. I'm not anactor...
...honorably sustain. In movie terms, they wear the mask of the Me-First '80s only to reveal the crinkly face of '30s romantic farce. Two of them boast the most ingratiating doll faces in today's Hollywood: the cartoon countenance of Goldie Hawn, in Overboard, and the Garbage Pail Kid visage of Danny DeVito, in Throw Momma from the Train...