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...aging "Actors" (Phil Munger and John Morton), also help develop the plot, though they follow the narrator's directions only insofar as it promotes their own washed-up acting careers. With booming voices and theatrical flair, Munger and Morton easily steal the show. Their incredibly comical scenes provide reason enough to see the production...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Fantasticks Falls Short | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...because he did not outline his speeches. And for the next decade, his career sounded more like crr-rash! He was fired from four Pennsylvania and Missouri radio stations and, after a five-year stint, from the marketing department of the Kansas City Royals. Not until he replaced Morton Downey Jr. on a Sacramento, California, station in 1984 did he come close to success. "Up until then," he says, "I failed at everything I did. On occasion, I had potential. On occasion, I was a guy who 'might make it if I could just learn to do this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservative Provocateur Or BIG BLOWHARD? | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...SAID IT? From the top: Martin Luther William Shakespeare (Hamlet) Rene Descartes Thomas Jefferson Karl Marx Sir Henry Morton Stanley Franklin D. Roosevelt Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind Martin Luther King, Jr. Neil Armstrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millennium Top Ten | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

COMPOSERS: SOME PROMISING FELLOWS NAMED GERSHWIN, LOESSER, MORTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Record Year | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

...American musical. Guys and Dolls, for all its snazz and lilt, is a faithful revival of Loesser's 1950 hit. Crazy for You is a jolly update of Gershwin's 1930 Girl Crazy. Jelly's Last Jam is a spiked showcase for the rags and blues of Jelly Roll Morton, who flourished in Gershwin's day. Tourists go to these "new" shows with the same nostalgic avidity they bring to a "new" Matisse exhibition at the Museum of Modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Record Year | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

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