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...prison, is in regular phone contact with Wanniski), refuses to divulge the identities of the mysterious "media junkies" who help him compile his ratings, but among them there are at least two alumni of Lyndon LaRouche's fanatical groups, as well as public relations flacks, a social worker, a playwright, typists, salesmen, a medical secretary and people who called in to a Denver talk-radio program and asked to be reviewers. A man who has accepted money from felon Milken, has gone on Asian junkets paid for by felon Moon and has relied on media ratings supplied by proteges...
...waste time on the war of the worlds; it was defining the battle of the sexes, and here the woman often won. Because she was better. Joan Crawford, as mom and career woman in Mildred Pierce (1945), could handle herself and a gun with steely assurance. And as a playwright in Sudden Fear (1952), she was smart enough to write her way out of her psychopathic husband's clutches. Could Julia Roberts have pulled that off in Sleeping with the Enemy...
...Broadway guided Jenkins as Huck Finn in the musical Big River and shaped Blessing's comedy of U.S.-Soviet relations, A Walk in the Woods. This production inaugurates a new main stage at La Jolla Playhouse, outside San Diego, where McAnuff is artistic director. Neither the architect nor the playwright could ask for a more visually seductive showcase...
...unique in 20th century French culture. He might be described as the Provencal Mark Twain, if that beloved "regional" writer had also made movies championed by critics and the public. He could be a French Frank Capra, if that populist filmmaker had also been his country's most popular playwright. Pagnol introduced French theatergoers to the accent of his own rural south, where Rs roll off the tongue like a river over its bed, and carted his movie camera out of the studio and into the side streets and luscious hills of Provence. The father of the French talkie...
With 111 factories churning out weaponry ranging from AK-47s to L-39 Albatros jet trainers, Czechoslovakia has been producing more than $800 annually per citizen, vs. $700 for the U.S. But with a dissident playwright as President and a mandate to undo the past, Czechoslovakia's postcommunist government is determined to dismantle the country's arms industry. President Vaclav Havel has ruefully noted that Czechoslovakia sent Libya enough Semtex plastic explosives in the '70s and early '80s to keep the world's terrorists supplied for the next 150 years. Just two months after the November 1989 revolution, Foreign Minister...