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Sinatra, a five-hour CBS mini-series about the pop-music legend, sounded unpromising from the get-go. The Chairman of the Board's life story has been too public and too troubling -- fights with reporters, alleged Mafia ties, stories of boorish behavior -- to be much good as myth, and network TV doesn't have the stomach for a real expose. Especially not in a movie produced by Sinatra's own daughter Tina...
Young's sweet voice, backed by stellar vocalists James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, makes for a fine sound. Love stories are ample here, but they are subtle and, in some cases, sublimely subversive. In "Unknown Legend," for example, Young sings of a a distant passion: "Somewhere in a desert highway/She rides a Harley-Davidson." In print, it's not the most romantic image in the world, but the music--and Ronstadt's voice--brings the image to life...
Chrysler's second success story bodes well for its incoming management. The first comeback belonged almost exclusively to Chrysler's self-touting legend, Iacocca, who towed the company out of the wilderness in the early 1980s. The second was much more the victory of a management team that learned painful lessons and persevered through fierce internal clashes. In late 1987, Chrysler was slipping again, and Iacocca began to recognize the problems, including the overly autocratic force of his own leadership. He instigated what has since become known as Truth Week, during which the company's top 500 executives went...
...story of Glass's 1976 debut at the Met with Einstein on the Beach has become the stuff of legend: how he sold out the rented house on two successive Sundays, crystallized New York's nascent minimalist movement and then went back to driving a taxi until the zeitgeist caught up with him and collaborator Robert Wilson a few years later. Since then, Glass has scored with such operas as Satyagraha (his masterpiece) and Akhnaten. But with the Met's imprimatur on The Voyage, Glass's long journey from obscure avant- gardist to mainstream cultural icon has been culminated...
...former White House occupants still living ever saw or heard anything resembling the ghosts that legend insists sometimes prowl the premises. But hear Ronald Reagan's story, told in that husky voice of his: "A couple were sleeping as guests in Abraham Lincoln's bedroom. They were visitors more than once at the White House. And one morning the lady came forth and said that she had awakened and saw a figure standing down at the foot of the bed and looking out the windows. And when that figure turned, it was Abraham Lincoln. She said she swore...