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...Three Sisters after too little rehearsal, she was booed and got the worst roasting of her career. The London Times described Sandy and Kim Stanley, who played another of the sisters, as "ludicrous and painful." Zeroing in on Sandy's speech ("I-er-I-ah"), Critic Bernard Levin of the Daily Mail reported that "I could barely restrain myself from screaming aloud with the pain of my throbbing nerves." Worse, Sandy was bypassed for the screen versions of her Broadway hits. That hurt, though neither Barbara Harris in A Thousand Clowns nor Jane Fonda in Any Wednesday quite matched...
...more than two years, New Jersey Real Estate Tycoon Philip J. Levin, 58, tried to topple the management of one of the biggest U.S. movie companies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. He spent $11,480,000 for MGM stock, eventually bought or controlled 720,000 shares, or 14.3% of the total. He put out at least $800,000 to finance two bitter but unsuccessful proxy fights...
Last week Levin headed toward the nearest exit. "I was in the position," he explained, "where I could only move sideways or backwards." Therefore, he and his associates sold their 720,000 shares of MGM. Of that total, 420,000 were bought at $59 a share by the youthful (38) president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Ltd., Edgar M. Bronfman, in a personal transaction. The remaining 300,000 shares were acquired, at the same price, by Time...
...weeks after the O'Neill premiere in California, the first Broadway curtain will rise on Dr. Cook's Garden, an Ira Levin melodrama about medical ethics, with Burl Ives, Screen Actor Keir Dullea (David and Lisa) and George C. Scott as director. From Britain, David Merrick is bringing a sure conversation piece: Playwright Tom Stoppard's existentialist upending of Hamlet, titled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Another West End import is the adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel about a slightly bonkers Edinburgh schoolmarm, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The title role, perfected by Vanessa...
...York Review of Books, a biweekly publication that offers highly literate book reviews to highly literate readers, normally carries nothing more than large-type announcements of what is inside. What is inside is words, with a sprinkling of pen-and-ink caricatures with oversized heads by David Levin. Last week, to the wondering eyes of its white, middle-class readers, Review devoted the lower third of a cover dealing with books on Negro rebellion to a detailed, do-it-yourself diagram of a Molotov cocktail. Some were amused, some were startled, none were likely to make much...