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...love to hate. His soaring ballads are dismissed as bland pop geared for easy-listening radio; his shows are scorned as cut-rate imitations of Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. ("The man writes galumphing, dunderheaded musicals that make...everything by Andrew Lloyd Webber seem like great art"--Newsday.) But he is a musical populist and proud of it. "Lyrics can be hard to grasp," he says. "If the music isn't comfortable on the ear and doesn't let the audience flow with it, you can miss a lot." Says Pimpernel producer Kathleen Raitt: "Nobody but the public...
Sheryl McCarthy, also a columnist for Newsday, said she was "impressed by the President's initiative to put aside 15 million dollars to give to non-profits to fight housing discrimination...
Since he signed on with the Times Mirror empire in 1995, Willes has moved with a ruthlessness that earned him the nicknames "Cap'n Crunch" and "the Cereal Killer." He whacked 2,000 jobs by killing the New York City edition of Newsday and slicing staff at papers like the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant. During the same period, the company's stock price has nearly tripled, from $22 a share...
...YORK CITY: The increasing likelihood that the crash of TWA Flight 800 was the result of mechanical failure may turn out to be good news for Boeing. The reason? Airlines are now even more anxious to replace their older planes with newer models. Days after Newsday said that a draft report by the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the 26-year-old plane essentially came apart in midair, Continental Airlines finalized a $3.5 billion order with Boeing to upgrade its fleet. "That 747 had logged 110,000 flying hours," Lee Kreindler, who represents some of the families in civil...
...your item on the marriage of the X-Files' David Duchovny and television actress Tea Leoni [PEOPLE, May 19], you referred to me as a "Daily News columnist." My newspapers are Newsday and the New York Post, plus 60 others across the country that carry my column. I haven't worked at the Daily News for more than six years. LIZ SMITH New York City...