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ENGAGED. Nelle Nugent, 42, a top Broadway producer (Amadeus, Nicholas Nickleby, The Dresser); and Jolyon Fox Stern, 42, insurance company magnate; in New York City. The couple, who met 2½ years ago when he sold her a policy, plan to be married in April...
...funeral, a mourner's first question about the deceased was "What about her Nicholas Nickleby ticket?" Bernard Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization and one of the co-producers who footed the $4.4 million cost of importing the show from London (the others: Gerald Schoenfeld, Elizabeth McCann, Nelle Nugent and James Nederlander), estimates that it "lost $495,000 in the first four weeks, but right now it looks as if it will make a small profit-like...
...music; gritty rapping between Burt Reynolds and streetwise teens; and documentary footage about the making of the commercials and the special, with touches of Hollywood self-satire. Some of the sequences are blandly Middle American-Evans calls them "white bready." But there is plenty of funk in Rocker Ted Nugent. His hair hangs in crimped strands halfway down his bare, sweaty chest, and he talks in a singsong urban-punk cadence about how to stay straight while being more cool than the druggies. When he sings, the mild jingle becomes a heavy-rhythm wail...
...that she could become a theatrical lawyer. Finally, in 1965, she landed a job with James Nederlander, who not only produced plays but owned theaters. Nederlander worked her hard, and when she threatened to quit, he hired an assistant for her, another victim of the Broadway bug, Nelle Nugent...
...Nugent's background, although a little tonier, is similar. Her father was a prominent New Jersey lawyer, and he did not have to struggle to send her to Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., which at that time was also an expensive women's college. Nugent, 41, majored in drama as well, and she also took several low-paying jobs so that she could work in the theater, chiefly backstage. Nederlander reasoned that her backstage technical expertise neatly complemented McCann's experience in the front office...