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...pages. Because the unions forbid anyone to work for the new corporation until a contract has been signed, the paper's editors have not even been able to run off one dummy issue. "It's going to be like opening a show on Broadway without an out-of-town try-out," says Editor Frank Conniff. "The cast will be getting together for the first time just twelve hours before opening-night curtain...
...then? Well, what follows cannot be properly called a movie musical. It is a sound-staged version of the London-Broadway musical by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, reproduced before an audience of attentive cameras. The result might easily be mistaken for a show's out-of-town run-through on a night when most of the original cast have been laid low by a virus; yet the film has a certain economy-style charm and a cheeky spirit of what-the-hell-have-we-got-to-lose-for even on stage, Stop the World was never more than...
While they waited for the unions and the papers to compromise, Bostonians were getting their news in spurts. Sales of out-of-town papers rose sharply. The Sunday New York Times brought as much as $1.50 a copy. TV Guide sold like sweepstakes tickets. Television stations stepped up their coverage, and staffers of the Record American and the Herald-Traveler appeared on camera daily to read the news. Decked out in button-down TV-blue shirts, they no longer looked like the old city-room gang. Boston Globe reporters also tried TV, but gave it up. What with stumbling over...
...born midwife," says a playwright. "He knows just when to gentle, just when to press." The thing he does best is stay away: he never goes to rehearsals unless he is asked to, shows confidence even if he doesn't feel it. "But after the out-of-town opening!" he says. "After those first stinking, rotten reviews! Boy, am I ever a bastard! Boy, do I make waves...
Furthermore, in 1966, the football widows in N.F.L. cities will lose those periodic reunions with their husbands when the game is blacked out because the local team is in town. Henceforth, though the home game will still not be shown within a 75-mile radius, an out-of-town game will be offered...