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...first really healthy musical of the 11-month-old season, Miss Saigon will open next week already holding cash and commitments for a record $36 million in tickets -- about double the tally of the former champion, The Phantom of the Opera. It seems set to pay off its production cost of $10 million, also a record, by the turn of the year. In an era when many musicals run a year or two without repaying a cent of their investment, Mackintosh aims to show a profit after 36 weeks, a timetable he accomplished with Miss Saigon in London. Such claims...
There were wildly confusing stories: of as many as 60,000 Iraqi troops massing around the town of Al Wafra, 37 miles from Khafji; of a column of 800 to 1,000 tanks and armored vehicles in that area -- or maybe it was a phantom -- moving south toward the Saudi border or north, away from it, under massive allied air attack or perhaps not. Late in the week allied commanders said they saw no pattern in Iraqi movements that would presage further raids...
...Iraq's Phantom First Family...
...mother of two from Newville, Pa., received two silicone implants last February, three months after undergoing double mastectomies. That summer she went out and bought a new two-piece swimsuit. "Losing your breasts is a terrible experience," she says. "You mourn the loss. You have the same phantom feelings as when you lose a limb." The implants, she says, have restored her spirit along with her figure. "I wear more revealing clothing than before, and I've never looked better...
...fourth most watched mini-series ever, and proved just as popular in Japan (whence came the bulk of the musical's financing). Says Clavell: "It's got a love story and, obviously, opportunities for high adventure. In production values it should compare quite favorably with Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera." So he financed the start-up and even now remains a principal investor. He explains, "My attitude, and my wife's attitude, has been that we don't gamble in the stock market or anything, we gamble...