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EXPECTING. Meredith Baxter Birney, 36, star of the TV sitcom Family Ties, and David Birney, 42, star of the recent TV mini-series Master of the Game and of next season's Glitter: twins, their second and third children; in October; in Los Angeles. Taping of new Family Ties episodes has started, and in the grand tradition of I Love Lucy the show's story line will follow Birney's pregnancy all the way to the birth...
...evening's few original touches comes before the play begins: an all-male band, and a well-rehearsed and spirited band it is, makes its entrance lovely attired in semi-elegant dresses of the era. As the Master of Ceremonies (Mark Meredith), with great mocking ostentation, proclaims in his welcome. "Everything is beautiful...the girls are beautiful even the orchestra is beautiful." Indeed, this sarcasm unveils one of the major themes of Cabaret--ugliness, the ugliness of Nazism. In the production, we are shown how those with a direct view of the movement could be blinded to for could wish...
...singing on the other hand, does do adequate justice to the fine match of John Kander's score and Fred Ebb's lyrics. Master of Ceremonies Mark Meredith plays a convincing Satan-like figure, and he is suitably disconcerting as he belts out a mighty anthem to "The Fatherland." His two bizarre, but rather lightweight, numbers. "Two Ladies" and "If They Could See What I See" are enacted with commendable energy. His "Money, Money", done with one of the Kit Kat Klub Girls, is strong, but lacks the vitality of Joel Grey's exquisite film rendition...
...Stockbroker Billy Bob Harris, 44, who is "a regular celebrity groupie," says Writer Edwin ("Bud") Shrake, a former Dallas sports columnist. Harris is friendly with Don Meredith, former Dallas Cowboy quarterback, ABC Monday Night Football commentator and TV pitchman; former Cowboy and Denver Bronco Quarterback Craig Morton, his onetime roommate; and country-and-western Singer Kenny Rogers. The broker's parties are known for "wall-to-wall girls, champagne, hot tubs and more girls," says Shrake. They were vividly portrayed in fictionalized form in the movie North Dallas Forty. Harris, who gave stock reports on Dallas TV, announced...
...appointment of a nine-man "advisory council" that will help administer affairs in Grenada until a new government is elected, presumably under a democratic constitution. No one could say when that might be. The council, composed of non-political Grenadians with administrative skills, is to be headed by Meredith Alister McIntyre, 51, now deputy secretary-general of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. Scoon gave high priority to forming "an efficient and effective police service free of politics." Police duties were being performed by troops from neighboring Caribbean nations, as well as by some...