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All the lights on Broadway glow a little brighter now that one of the master funnymen of the age is back. When Victor Borge delivers a line, the words seem to selfdestruct. He swallows them between hilariously elongated pauses and then utters small, satisfied, digestive burps. At the grand piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Darling Dane | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Obie award-winning director Maxine Klein uses a maximum of ingenuity in staging the play. With a relatively sparse set and few props, Klein makes the intimate 186-seat theater work for her, forcing the audience to become involved with her revolutionaries by staging many scenes along the aisles.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Emma Comes Alive | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

The Midwest is showing its usual hospitality, as much for pecuniary reasons as politeness: a pot of money comes to town when a big-budget movie crew arrives. It is not uncommon for the movie company and crew to spend more than $1 million on lodging, food, props, local extras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To the Heartland, with Cameras | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Guccione has his office in an expensively tacky off-Fifth Avenue mansion in New York City, full of mirrored walls, oversized candelabra and a gilded piano that Liberace might envy. The furnishings look as if they came intact from a Neapolitan bordello, but they actually came from Judy Garland'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Merchants of Raunchiness | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

Yes, and well worth the price of admission. Beethoven and Napoleon materialize, as do Concord coaches, corduroy roads and a fully outfitted Mississippi River steamboat. With a few judicious details as props, Gavin creates palpable illusions of scenes 150 years old. Schlumberger and a companion stalk the New York waterfront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man in the Automaton | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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