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...year career at The Times, Apple served as bureau chief in four foreign bureaus. At age 30, Apple became the Saigon bureau chief during the height of the Vietnam...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Apple Blasts Media in Speech | 4/9/1993 | See Source »

...script by playwright and television writer Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H) focuses on the struggle between the two central characters: Johnson, played by James Garner, and Kravis, played by Jonathan Pryce, who starred in the Broadway hit musical Miss Saigon. People familiar with Wall Street will have serious problems with these two pieces of casting because Garner doesn't behave much like Johnson and Price doesn't look anything like Kravis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbarians on The Screen | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...suds. They thrill when Christine kisses the unmasked Phantom and, by this display of courage and tenderness, wins her freedom from his spell. "There's something about the title and the mystique surrounding the show," says Cameron Mackintosh, producer of Phantom as well as Cats, Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, "that makes people desperate to see it -- not once, but many dozen times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phantom Mania | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...play begins on the opening night of a controversial Broadway musical entitled The Real Manchu, in which a white actor in yellow face plays the lead instead of an Asian. If this sounds familiar, that's because Hwang has found a forum to wreak delicious vengeance on Miss Saigon. The offensive and not very creative British extravaganza is only the point of departure for Face Value, however, which goes backstage at The Real Manchu to explore the interactions between self-absorbed actor, self-absorbed producer, wise-cracking stage manager, disguised Asian protesters and undercover white supremacist terrorists. The cast...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Face Value: Where Asians Are White-Faced, WASPs Are Yellow-Faced and All Are Confused | 2/18/1993 | See Source »

...your reaction to to Miss Saigon...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Politics and The Playwright | 2/18/1993 | See Source »

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