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Following Spider Woman will be works by, among others, songwriters Marvin Hamlisch and Jimmy Webb, novelist Erica Jong and playwrights Arthur Kopit, Marsha Norman and Peter Stone. Financial backers include Capital Cities/ABC, Columbia Artists Management and Jujamcyn, which owns five Broadway theaters. Investors have provided about a fourth of the first year's $10 million budget, with the balance projected to be earned in ticket sales, program advertising and merchandising...
Feminists concerned with preventing discrimination against women should expand their goals to include women who face the double challenge of being women in a male-oriented society and dealing with a disability, disabled advocate Marsha Saxton said in a talk last night...
...dynamic of the dance floor can be intergenerational and noncommittal. "It's a great way to get to know someone without having to date them," suggests Marge Gabbert, owner of Fascinating Rhythm, a dance studio in San Francisco. Says Marsha Dubrow, a Washington free-lance writer: "This is sensual without being sexual. Certainly fear of AIDS is a concern, but I also think that the complexity of the times and the epidemic fear of commitment have sparked the resurgence of ballroom...
...Steve Martin as Vladimir, in the Mike Nichols production of Waiting for Godot -- thus synthesizing Juilliard and wackiness. Personally, however, Williams is quieter, more settled. He is past bouts of alcohol and cocaine dependence. Separated from his wife of nine years, he now keeps company with his personal secretary, Marsha Garces. And he is famously devoted to his four-year-old son Zachary...
...movie is sleeker, cannier, luckier -- and more disturbing. No wonder feminists have cried foul over Fatal Attraction: Alex is the '80s career woman as homicidal vamp. Says Marsha Kinder, a film professor at the University of Southern California: "In this film, it is not sexual repression that causes psychosis. It is sexual liberation. For men, Alex's sexuality is a succubus; it saps a man's strength. Fatal Attraction is also about how men fear women. Because in this movie women have the power, positively and negatively. When Alex hears Dan threaten her, she doesn't take it seriously...