Word: legendizes
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...what becomes a legend more than a TV movie? A splashy musical stage biography. It happened to the former first lady of Argentina, among others. And this month in London's West End, it happened to Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn! pastes together a pastiche of the late actress from a collage of 27 numbers that set the producers back some $1.5 million, the most ever spent on a London musical. Entrusted with holding the whole thing together, and with conveying M.M.'s breathy voluptuousness, is Stephanie Lawrence, 28, who headlined the London production of 'Evita by night...
...handed Steve Garvey's old position. Indirectly, Marshall is replacing Third Baseman Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero having transferred there from rightfield to make room for Marshall. Lasorda has told both newcomers, "When I replaced Walter Alston six years ago, all I heard was that I was replacing a legend. I said, 'I'm not worried about replacing a legend. I'm worried about the guy who has to replace...
...Uncle Al to her, an old gent who liked chocolate ice cream cones and miniature golf, and who used summers at the Stieglitz family compound in Lake George, N.Y., to relax and flirt innocently with young female relatives. She knew him as a character before she bumped into his legend: "It was not until 1932 or 1933, when I was ten or eleven years old, that I began to sense the deep respect in which he was held even by the artist and writer friends who visited him at Lake George; it would take considerably longer for me to learn...
...would do well in this age of total and instant analysis to ponder why it is we honor George Washington as we do, why the legend goes on in the face of the reservations and doubts that scholars keep raising. It is true that simply being an American and being around for the start of the United States would have assured Washington some place in history. There was more...
...unable to conclude a coda to a florid piece. The show played for four years to packed houses, first in London, then in New York. When it ended, Moore and Cook went on to do a television series and five movies, including Bedazzled, their zany version of the Faust legend. Their style was blithe, bizarre humor that turned logic upside down. In Bedazzled, for instance, they invented an order of leaping nuns who would jump on trampolines to get closer to God. In their knockabout revue Good Evening, which ran almost continuously for five years, they constructed an imaginary restaurant...