Word: neils
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...opening? "Terrific," Moore said, "Terrific for Boston, terrific for anywhere. It was the best opening I've ever had." He has tried out shows here before, notably the Neil Simon-Burt Bacharach musical, Promises, Promises, and Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers. The reviews that morning had been moderately favorable; Kevin Kelly of the Globe had enjoyed the show. "Kevin Kelly is generally regarded as no pushover," said Moore. "It was a terrific score...
Moore has just finished post-production for Neil Simon's new film comedy, The Cheap Detective. "Neil does these spoofs as respites in between writing his more serious things. The last one we did, Murder By Death, was very successful, but it had its limitation. Concepts for Neil come out of a basic locale, a central place that his characters are tied to. The Cheap Detective is no exception, but it's a looser and much better script than Murder, and a much better movie. There were 11 names above the title in Murder; here there are 16. Cheap Detective...
...Swan Lake. The mood of theatergoers was dramatized neatly on Broadway when an effort to revive Hair fizzled dismally with critics and public alike, while Man of La Mancha, with all its improbable visions, came back successfully (to run alongside such other hits as the shamelessly treacly Annie and Neil Simon's latest domestic frolic, Chapter Two). Movie fans are in tune too: having rejoiced not long ago over a fable of apocalypse like Dr. Strangelove and a parable of triumphant evil like Easy Rider, they are today cheering over a heart-grabbing fable like Rocky and a simple...
...returns on these movies closely because many more musicals are on the way. Hot Wax, the story of a '50s disc jockey, is already in production, as is FM, a film about a rock radio station, and Thank God It's Friday!, about a Los Angeles discotheque. Neil Diamond wants to do a remake of The Jazz Singer, and Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin will star in a musical version of Popeye. Annie, the Broadway hit, was just bought by Columbia Pictures for $9.5 million, the highest sum ever paid for a musical property...
Last week Byrd revealed to TIME Correspondent Neil Mac-Neil that it was a top Klan official who first encouraged him to run for Congress. Said Byrd: "I know it will hurt me, but I want to tell the story in full." Byrd wrote to the Imperial Wizard of the Klan in 1942, asking to join...