Word: neil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the start, Staff Photographer Neil Leifer's idea had a nice ring to it. With the film sequel Rocky III scheduled to open at about the same time that the long-awaited heavyweight fight takes place between Gerry Cooney and defending Champion Larry Holmes, Leifer proposed to exploit the coincidence by having Cooney and Actor Sylvester Stallone pose together. Leifer asked Stallone, who lives in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades, to fly East. Meanwhile, Leifer booked a suite at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills, where Cooney was training. Stallone slipped into the hotel by a back door...
Reported by Neil MacNeil/ Washington...
Most plays without music still depend on the unaided human voice. But even they are sometimes amplified. Such recent shows as Agnes of God and The Little Foxes have used mikes, as have Neil Simon comedies. "Conventional sound no longer satisfies people," says Producer Alexander Cohen. "They want to go to the theater and see and hear everything. At 40 bucks a shot, they deserve...
...Social Security payment?" Says Washington Correspondent Jeanne Saddler, who interviewed top Administration officials, including Commissioner of Social Security John A. Svahn: "Most people have never understood how the system works. The dilemma the Government faces is finding a way to keep the commitments it has made to the people." Neil MacNeil, who has covered Congress for TIME for 24 years, remembers all too well the way Congressmen used to brag about how they once honored those commitments. But political cynicism aside, TIME's correspondents had all the help they needed to put this important story about human needs...
...DIED. Neil Bogart, 39, maverick entertainment mogul whose "ear for the street" made him a millionaire catalyst of the disco-music craze; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Bogart at 27 first corralled the teeny-bopper record market with "bubblegum" music like the indigestible Yummy Yummy Yummy ("I've got love in my tummy"). With his sure instinct for slick commercialization, he was a key shaper of the success of such pop singers and groups as Donna Summer, Mac Davis, the Village People and Kiss. An occasional co-producer of expertly hyped movies as well (Midnight Express, The Deep), Bogart...