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...During much of the 1960s and '70s, Norman Whitfield wrote and produced more than a dozen hit songs for Motown Records and his independent label, including Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and the Temptations' "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone." As one of Motown's most prolific and successful writers, he holds the title for penning the label's all-time best-selling single with "Grapevine...
British playwright Alan Ayckbourn has long been the theater's champion daredevil, a man who never saw a stage stunt he wouldn't tackle. One of his early works, The Norman Conquests, was a cycle of three plays that recounted the events of a weekend from three different parts of the same house. One Ayckbourn play moves backward in time. Another conflates all the action in a house, from living room to attic, into a single stage space. His ingenious, nearly unstageable Intimate Exchanges has 16 permutations, depending on the choices made by characters at key points in the action...
...Your "Back & Forth" column quotes CNN President Jon Klein as saying of the press coverage of Palin, "I don't think anybody expected the news media to just sit there and accept the Norman Rockwell painting. That's not our job." The news media did exactly that for Barack Obama. Richard Laxton, Bowraville, New South Wales...
...comic Life and Beth. Following them this month is a revival of his 1985 tragicomedy Woman in Mind, and, in December, the premiere of his new musical, Awaking Beauty. Meanwhile, the Old Vic theater is welcoming Ayckbourn back to London with a revival of his most celebrated work, The Norman Conquests: his 1973 trilogy about a traumatic family weekend, with each play covering the same time period from a different room in the family's country house...
...think anybody expected the news media to just sit there and accept the Norman Rockwell painting. That's not our job.' JON KLEIN, CNN president, disputing the McCain campaign's claim that Brown's questions were "over the line." McCain later canceled an interview with CNN's Larry King in protest...