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...BREUER is directing a rehearsal for the American Repertory Theater production of Lulu. It is less than three hours before the audience will file in to view a preview performance. Floor-standing floodlights and mike cords vie with the actors for elbow room on the thrust stage, surrounded on three sides by technical staff who follow the action below like surgeons starting down on an operation from the balcony...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: No 'Harumphs' | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...statement, Cimino admitted that "the missing step of public previews clouded my perception of the film" and had made him "unable to benefit and learn from audience reaction." Now he has learned, but the lesson was prohibitive. Including advertising and interest costs, U.A. spent close to $50 million for the industry's most disastrous sneak preview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: How to Play Hollywood Hara-Kiri | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...Reingold's report on the rival Japanese auto industry is written from a unique perspective. He was Detroit bureau chief for seven years and now is able to study firsthand America's deadliest commercial competitors. There are notable differences in style, he reports: "Detroit's press previews used to be orchestrated like TV spectaculars, with carefully scripted speeches, followed by eating and drinking and Ella Fitzgerald singing, Minnesota Fats doing billiard tricks, or Glenn Miller's band creating nostalgia. The merchandising was razzle-dazzle, the sales claims often outrageous and heady." Not so in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 8, 1980 | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, for some time. Dr. Lilian Reich of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said that Champion first showed signs of the disease ten years ago, but that it was not diagnosed until four years later. Throughout the long rehearsal and preview period Champion scheduled his treatments so they would not conflict with his work. Says Dr. Reich: "It was clear that he put the show first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: And the Show Did Go On | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...middle, and both pictures are the centerpieces of a projected nine-part series. The remaining movies, fore and aft, have not yet been laid out in detail, but Lucas has the framework, a kind of history of what happened in that galaxy long ago and far away. A preview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, May 19, 1980 | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

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