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BABY Music by David Shire; Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. Book by Sybille Pearson
...Baby's heart is a little too much in the right place, its head is very correctly concentrated on the things that should matter the most in a musical. David Shire's score (artfully orchestrated by Jonathan Tunick) is alive and kicking and often whimsically satirical of what seems to be the entire range of contemporary pop styles. The lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. are intricate without being show-offy; his rhymes never lose sight of their reason for being. And the staging, also by Maltby, is rather like his lyrics, fluid and inventive without ever seeming...
SOMEWHERE IN THE BERK SHIRE HILLS--I cannot reveal to you my exact location...
...great as Rocky ever faced, Stallone held out. United Artists insisted that the movie come in at $1 million, and the production became a Rocky story in itself. The result was a low-rent victory. The board of health even shut down the commissary. "We were so poor," Shire remembers, "we had stalls instead of trailers." Stallone's acting salary was $620 a week. "I would have done it for nothing," he says...
...also a wandering husband. Sly made the Manhattan disco scene and had a couple of well-publicized romances, with Joyce Ingalls, his Paradise Alley costar, and Actress-Singer Susan Anton. "Stallone is one of those eccentric, powerful and vulnerable males I've always adored," says Shire. "I think he was born sweet and spent most of his life repressing that. It's only recently, with Sasha's help, that he's decided to show...