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...American cast, it seemed as ill- fated as its characters: an awkward teenage girl, her religiously obsessed mother and a high school full of taunting girls and boys who come to grief when the target of their mockery demonstrates supernatural powers of destruction in a crowded gym on prom night. Carrie was blasted by London critics when it opened a four-week run in February at the R.S.C.'s home in Stratford-upon-Avon. The show was rewritten almost nightly; special effects misfired disastrously; one of the two leads quit. Problems continued when it moved to New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Getting All Fired Up over Nothing CARRIE | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...grandly call themselves the Oil City Symphony have come together for a reunion concert. There is Mark the pianist and accordionist, a geek with glasses in a white dinner jacket and purple slacks who is also the minister of music at his church; Debbie the drummer, an ex- prom queen in a strapless gown who exchanges one pink pump for a running shoe, the better to thump her bass drum; Mary the violinist, of stern Scandinavian stock, uptight, humorless and "best remembered locally for her performance as Anita in West Side Story"; and Mike the gentle, wistful synthesizer player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In The Sweet, Funny By and By OIL CITY SYMPHONY | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...their rare nights out in public, Cosby treats his wife with the adoration of a nerdy schoolboy who cannot believe he landed the prom queen. He admits, however, that their life together was not always the stuff of warm situation comedy. About eight years ago, he says, "if somebody had made me choose between my career and my family, I probably would have let the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Do Believe in Control | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...just getting warmed up. Enormous white tents suspended high over the dancers are lighted to blush pink. On the floor are some real hotshots. They samba, mambo, rhumba, tango, fox-trot, lindy, peabody and what can only be called, in street language, get down! It's like an eternal prom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Celebrating an Eternal Prom | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...fulfill his needs for fantasy and security; in this version, mother and daughter sing about a husband-father, and it makes for an electrifying duet. Throughout the album, the range and vocal glamour displayed offer testimony that Cissy's girl has grown up. Whitney marks graduation day for the prom queen of soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prom Queen of Soul | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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