Word: raye
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...DIED. RAY STARK, 88, prolific Hollywood producer who gave Barbra Streisand her breakthrough role in the stage musical and 1968 film Funny Girl; in Los Angeles. Stark, who started out in Hollywood writing captions for publicity photos at Warner Bros., made more than 125 films, including Night of the Iguana, The Way We Were, and 11 movies in close collaboration with playwright Neil Simon, among them The Sunshine Boys. Stark considered several actresses such as Mary Martin and Eydie Gorme before choosing the then unknown Streisand to play Funny Girl's Fanny Brice. Her performance in the film...
...thin, neat frames in gunmetal and black, so beloved over the past two years, are well past their sell-by, as are rimless models. In their place, expect lots of ovals and cat's-eyes, and even more mirror coating and patterned plastics. The classic Ray-Ban Aviator is tipped to make a big comeback, while die-hard fashionistas will flip over multilayered lenses, allowing tone-on-tone coloring. Be seen at the poolside in nothing less...
...After years of resisting the hard line taken by the music industry, the studio recently decided to take off the gloves and pursue civil litigation against pirates. The M.P.A.A., meanwhile, is investigating 23 American theaters where camcording has occurred. (The first person to be federally charged for camcording, Johnny Ray Gasca, jumped bail two weeks ago in California...
Super Bowl. It is the Great American Time Out, a three-hour pause on a Sunday afternoon in January that is--as sheer, unadorned spectacle--an interval unique. For 70 million Americans, life compresses to the diagonally measured size of a cathode ray tube. Work goes undone, play ceases too; telephones stop ringing, romance is delayed and, in all the land, there is just one traffic jam worthy of the title--on highways leading to the Super Bowl site. If it is not literally McLuhan's global village, the Super Bowl certainly is the national town, and all the inhabitants...
...this responsibility has been placed in the hands of an untested first-year coach, Peter Nowak, a former Polish national team, German Bundesliga and MLS standout. Nowak replaces Ray Hudson—who suffered through two consecutive losing seasons—in an attempt to rejuvenate a club that won three of the first four MLS titles, but has only been to the playoffs once since...