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Today regarded as an American musical classic, Lerner and Lowe's Camelot met with a less-than-enthusiastic reception from critics when it originally opened. They dismissed the Lerner show as being inferior to My Fair Lady, its immediate predecessor by the same composer-lyricist team. The comparison irritated Lerner, who pointed out that he and Lowe had had hits before My Fair Lady, such as Brigadoon...
...Since the mid-1960s, Mitchelson, 50, has piled up a long list of financially rewarding victories in celebrity divorce battles, sometimes representing big- name clients (Rhonda Fleming, Connie Stevens, Red Buttons) but more often fighting for the showfolks' spouses. Among them: the wives of Rod Steiger, Alan Jay Lerner, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Richard Harris and Tony Curtis, who has had the misfortune of losing child-custody cases to not one but two Mitchelson-represented spouses...
...Irina Orlov, wife of Physicist Yuri Orlov, who was sentenced to twelve years last May for having founded the first Helsinki Watch Committee. Two of the Soviet Union's best-known "refuseniks," who have been denied visas to Israel, came to show their sympathy for Shcharansky. They were Alexander Lerner, the former head of a cybernetics institute, and Veniamin Levich, one of the world's leading physical chemists. Both men were fired from their posts for seeking to emigrate to Israel. Near by stood Yelena Bonner Sakharov, one of the few members of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Committee who have...
Marriage Revealed. Alan Jay Lerner, 58, Broadway lyricist laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot); and Nina Bushkin, 27, daughter of Joey Bushkin, the jazz pianist; he for the sixth time, she for the first; on May 30 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
...poetry of the Beatles, Dylan Thomas and Barry Manilow, plus the original plays of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe and Jerry Herman (just to name a few) certainly deserve the status of "The Great Books...