Word: lyricist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...score much of a help, Lyricist Lee Adams and composer Charles Strouse did Bye Bye Birdie and Golden Boy, both of which realized more talent than Superman hints at. Even the notions behind the numbers are uniformly uninspired. "Doing Good," "We Need Him," and "The Strongest Man in the World" are poor ideas gone nowhere...
Died. Joseph Albert Fields, 71, Broadway playwright and brother of Lyricist Dorothy (Sweet Charity) Fields, a one time screenwriter who in 1940 teamed with Jerome Chodorov to adapt stories for the stage, turned out such comedies as My Sister Eileen and Junior Miss, later wrote the librettos for hit musicals Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (with Anita Loos) and Flower Drum Song (with Oscar Hammerstein); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...Kurd Hatfield, and last summer had a three-part series on the changing role of modern women in church and society called The Evolution of Eve. Scheduled for spring is a CBS special-a Brecht-like oratorio on Galileo and the Inquisition by Composer Ezra Laderman and Joe Darion, lyricist of the off-Broadway hit, Man of La Mancha. NBC's Frontiers of Faith will soon undertake a twelve-part series on modern ethics-including one program called "The Manly Art of Seduction," inspired by Hugh Hefner's Playboy philosophy. ABC's Directions offered a highly praised...
Divorced. Alan Jay Lerner, 47, Broadway lyricist (Camelot, the upcoming On a Clear Day You Can See Forever); by Micheline Lerner, 37, his fourth wife; on grounds of mental cruelty; after nearly eight years of marriage, one child; in Las Vegas. Settlement: a reported $1 million...
...less important to the success of No Hard Feelingsare the talents of song-writers Irwin Carson and Mike Tschudin and lyricist Timothy Mayer. Most numbers have a pleasing if eclectic sound and all are literate and clever. A trio of songs in the first act-"Lingua Academia," "You Made My Conscience Expand," and the title song--are exceptional. And the rousing preintermission finale, "Forbidden Frug," rocks the club house as that other House must have been shaken by the antics of America's favorite teen-ager...