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Written by Rivers with collaborators Erin Sanders and Lonny Price, the play is based on the life of comedian Lenny Bruce's mother, whom Rivers met in a Las Vegas coffee shop eight years ago. Deserted by her husband on their wedding night, Marr, already pregnant, became a so-so stand-up comic while she raised her son in a gay boardinghouse. When Lenny died of a drug overdose in 1966, she was left destitute and in charge of his only daughter...
...troopers. The whole disaster is portrayed as an environmental corrective to the evils unleashed by the military-scientifi c complex. (It can be no accident that the villain's name is Flagg.) The good people make their stand in bucolic Boulder, Colorado; the bad guys set up headquarters in Las Vegas. Characters periodically remind each other about the perils of remaking society -- "trying to re-create the world that damn near choked the human race to death," as one puts...
...success, says Disney's stores sell about $600 worth of product per sq. ft. per year -- 50% above the average take for a , prosperous mall store. Warner's figure is an even gaudier $750. The number may be skewed because the company's showcase stores at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan do business considerably above the Warner norm, but no one is complaining. Last Christmas, says Peter Starrett, president of Warner Bros. Worldwide Retail, "the Fifth Avenue store did twice the volume we expected...
Tailhook is one more sorry example of the practice of conceding that mistakes were made without punishing those who made them. A Navy judge found that Kelso was on the third floor of the Las Vegas Hilton when women -- not just Top Gun groupies but also 15 female officers -- were assaulted. The judge accused Kelso of lying about his presence there and of trying to manipulate the investigation to shield himself. A Pentagon inspector-general report found otherwise, but Kelso decided against a further inquiry to sort out the discrepancies in favor of stepping down two months early. He bargained...
Louis D. Monoyudis o Las Vegas, Nev. said that Harvard has always been his first choice--but that his decision was made easier because he was "waitlisted almost everywhere else...