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Following the lead of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Bennett opts to develop the story line almost entirely in song, including operatic recitatives. The tale is rather like the saga of the Supremes' rise from Harlem's Apollo Theater to top-of-the-pop-charts renown, to gether with the emergence of Diana Ross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sorcerer of Shubert Alley | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...baton the orchestra reached a level of technical precision that it had lacked for years under his predecessor, Leonard Bernstein. From 1976 to 1980, Boulez presided over the controversial Patrice Chéreau productions of Wagner's Ring cycle at Bayreuth-an incisive interpretation of the mythological saga, which can now be heard, in digital sound, on Philips Records (16 discs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boulez Ex Machina | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

Perelman died two years ago, so until some biographer turns him into academic chopped liver, it is going to be hard to tell how much of the Perelman persona was Perelman himself. Until then, the only thing to go on is the 45-page autobiographical fragment "The Hindsight Saga," in the posthumous opus The Last Laugh which Perelman's publisher and executor have just produced. Concentrating on Perelman's early years in Hollywood, where he worked on the screenplays for the Marx Brother's Monkey Business and Horse Feathers and on a number of other comedies, it reveals a Perelman...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Laughing Last but not Loudest | 11/18/1981 | See Source »

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the premiere screening of the Harvard football 1981 highlight film, entitled "That Championship Season". It is the story of desire, heart and courage, and ultimately the story of the 1981 Ivy title. Harvard's first since 1975. Our saga begins on a drizzly afternoon in September as the gridders outdistance Columbia, 23-6. Then, on to Cornell--and a big Ivy win. A loss to Dartmouth sets the squad back, but the turning point in the season comes the next week, when Jim Villanueva's last-second field goal caps a 17-point comeback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Might Have Been | 11/14/1981 | See Source »

...death; yet precisely such a passionate death snapped critics out of their languor toward the previously obscure, drugged-out actor, in 1969's Easy Rider. Hopper and Fonda had written it as a two-wheeled vehicle for themselves, but it was Nicholson who carried the confused, drugged saga out of the multitude of road pictures, playing the only non-hippie, non-redneck in the film, the young smalltown lawyer George Hansen. Hansen leaves home to ride cross-country with these two bikers, donning his old high school football helmet, and seeing the world for the first time through red eyes...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

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