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...DIED. SANDRA DEE, 62, once America's perkiest, most popular female teen idol, who caused squeals in teenage bedrooms nationwide when she married pop singer Bobby Darin; of complications from kidney disease; in Thousand Oaks, California. She played the innocent tomboy surfer in the 1959 film Gidget, a signature role that led to a string of similar parts, but showed a more serious side in films like Imitation of Life and A Summer Place. She gradually disappeared from Hollywood, battling anorexia and drinking problems after her turbulent marriage to Darin ended...
...their own single-gal sitcoms (Townies on ABC and Suddenly Susan on NBC, respectively). Meanwhile Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad will be renewing their fictional marriage in CBS's Cosby. Also returning to TV comedy with hopes of another big hit: Family Ties' Michael J. Fox, pop culture's perkiest avatar of the greed years. As the star of ABC's Spin City, Fox plays a deputy mayor who surely isn't making the six figures Alex Keaton would have hoped for. And expect to see thirtysomething's famed yuppies, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Steadman, doing a lot less brooding...
Which doesn't mean that stars haven't broken out. Chief among them is Richardson, who at 34 was the oldest member of the U.S. softball team and almost certainly its perkiest. A former college star at UCLA, she continued to play through medical school, and now works as an orthopedic surgeon. To train for the Olympics, she took a one-year leave of absence from her residency at the University of Southern California; two days after the gold-medal victory, she returned to her rounds at the hospital. Or at least tried to. The hospital held a congratulatory press...
...Colvin will worry; it's what she does for a living. It makes Fat City a set mostly of frets and flourishes. Even the perkiest number, the irresistibly Beatleesque Round of Blues, hedges its best hopes ("I see lights in a fat city/ I feel love again") by wondering if this buoyancy heralds "a new breakthrough" or "an old breakdown." And in the soft, scary Monopoly, about a departed lover, Colvin flays herself: "I'd rather do anything/ Than write this song for you." She warns herself not to soften the blow with irony: "Retreating behind these lines/ The same...
Rhinoceros (translated from the French of Eugene lonesco by Derek Prouse) finally breached Broadway's avant-guarded walls for France's perkiest avant-gardist. The play, to be sure, has been trumpeted enough: its history included Paris and London productions with Jean-Louis Barrault and Laurence Olivier; its story dealt with people becoming rhinoceroses. If, for all that, it isn't a real Broadway event, it has its virtues as an oddity...