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...foreign-service officer, Greg, 38, spent parts of his boyhood in New Delhi, the Philippines and Saigon, where his father Barry was chief spokesman for the U.S. embassy for 4 1/2 years during the Vietnam War. Greg became a member of TIME's extended family at 15 when the elder Zorthian joined Time Inc., first as a broadcasting executive and then as vice president for government affairs...
...York magazine and even network TV. For the first time in years, the most coveted ticket is not to one of the big British musicals that disgruntled Yanks term "the chandelier show," "the helicopter show," "the barricades show" and "the felines show" (Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Cats). Local sages have credited Guys and Dolls with a role in everything from reviving musical comedy and Broadway as a whole to renewing public faith in the city and its mayor. In these extravagant formulations, Guys and Dolls is more than a hit -- it's a myth...
...YEARS AS A WRITER, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT and editor, Roy Rowan has built a reputation for adventurous, penetrating and durable journalism. From his eyewitness report of the fall of Saigon for TIME in 1975 to his expose of the Mafia's top bosses for FORTUNE in 1986 and an extraordinary account in PEOPLE in 1990 of two weeks spent as a homeless wanderer on the streets of Manhattan, his stories have established Roy as a master reporter, one of the few at the very top of the profession who are both unstoppable investigators and caring chroniclers of the human condition. This...
Rowan has more than a little experience with strange and difficult stories. He joined LIFE as a correspondent in China in 1948 and spent, in separate assignments, 15 years in Asia as bureau chief for LIFE and TIME in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Saigon. He covered the fall of Shanghai, the Korean War, the Mayaguez crisis and the fall of Saigon. In between, he ran LIFE bureaus in Rome, Bonn and Chicago and was national-affairs editor and assistant managing editor of LIFE. Among his many accomplishments at our sister publication was a pretty good personnel move: he trained...
IMPRESARIO CAMERON MACKINTOSH made his millions (150 or so of them, in dollar terms) producing musicals of high tech, high technique and high seriousness -- Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats. He was just out for a night on the town with friends in Britain when he saw a jumping, jiving cabaret revue. It could not have been further from Mackintosh's customary taste. He favors life-and-death storytelling; Five Guys Named Moe is a wisp of a tale about a drunken lowlife cleaning up his act and winning back his lady love with...