Word: manhattan
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Actor James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope) commands about $200,000 per movie these days, but for twelve weekend performances in a workshop production at Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, he agreed to work for nothing. "I even put in $1 a week for coffee," he says good-naturedly. Why so? Jones, 46, is fascinated with his role of Oedipus Rex and the adaptation of Sophocles' play selected for the production. For Translator John Lewin, says Jones, "the gut of the play is the discovery that Oedipus' mama agreed with Oedipus' papa...
This week, however, the last of the Star Co.'s lunch-pail capitalists will sell out to Capital Cities Communications Inc., the Manhattan-based owner of four small newspapers, 13 broadcast stations and Women's Wear Daily. Employees of the Kansas City company, which publishes the evening Star and the morning Times, gave up their stake so willingly because the papers will soon require very expensive modernization -and because the price was right: $125 million, twice the book value of the firm and probably the highest price ever paid for a one-city newspaper company...
Some playwrights have too few ideas -or none at all. John Guare (House of Blue Leaves) is of a rarer kind: his mind is a virtual breeder reactor of dramatic themes large and small. In Marco Polo Sings a Solo, a comedy now playing at Manhattan's Public Theater, Guare's reactor has run away from him. Ideas meet, collide and cancel one another out, like so many errant atoms, and his play explodes in a dozen directions...
...mostly being drafted by his energy coordinator James Schlesinger (see following story), for presentation to Congress by April 20. What should it contain? An impressive amount of agreement has been building up among experts, and it is reflected by TIME'S Board of Economists, who gathered in Manhattan last week for their first day-long meeting of 1977. Though the board contains liberals and conservatives, the nine members present were unanimous in recommending a drastic policy focused on sharply higher energy prices and taxes. Observed Alan Greenspan, who rejoined the board after having been on leave for 28 months...
Died. Father James G. Keller, 76, Roman Catholic missionary priest who founded the Christophers, a loose-knit ecumenical movement devoted to individual action and the credo that it is "better to light one candle than to curse the darkness"; of complications arising from Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Keller preached his gospel in more than a dozen books, a TV show and a movie, You Can Change the World...