Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What do Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross, Neil Diamond, Miami Vice, Little Shop of Horrors and Nair hair-removal cream have in common? They have all generated earnings for an obscure Los Angeles company, the Four Seasons Partnership. Like many businesses in the entertainment field, the firm employs technicians, musicians and other professionals, but the heart of the company is a 25-year- old creative and financial partnership between two men -- Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli -- that is highly unusual, if not unique, in the world of business. Gaudio, 46, is a composer, pianist, arranger and producer who has worked...
...fact, there is no other singer quite like Feinstein. Bobby Short is better singing Cole Porter -- Feinstein feels a bit uncomfortable with Porter's witty and often cynical lyrics -- and Steve Ross has a wider repertoire. But no one better understands the romantic moods of Irving Berlin and the Brothers Gershwin. Most singers today would not even bother with Berlin's ancient Alexander's Ragtime Band, for instance; or if they did, it would most likely sound like a Sousa march. Caressing it seductively, Feinstein, occasionally improvising as he sings, transforms it into a love song...
...Jordan) runs a vulnerable conglomerate; his inamorata (Helen Slater) is the boss's minor squeeze; the older woman who beds Brantley is the boss's wife (Margaret Whitton). And now that we have the farce machinery purring, let's kick it into high gear. Naaah, why bother? Director Herbert Ross and Writers Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr. and A J Carothers know this picture exists only as a mobile Michael J. Fox poster, suitable for display on the bedroom walls of twelve-year-olds named Cindy. Secret earned nearly $7.8 million its first weekend, so the Fox conglomerate is thriving...
Next week the Government will offer amnesty to perhaps half the nation' s illegal aliens while making it harder for the rest to live and work in the U. S. -- Texas Billionaire H. Ross Perot launches a private probe into what he believes is a network of former CIA agents and military officials. -- Richard Nixon analyzes the zero option. -- An unwanted garbage barge hunts for a friendly dump...
...Roland Flamini, Steven Holmes Paris: Jordan Bonfante, B. J. Phillips, Adam Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori % Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, Laura Lopez, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott