Word: shopped
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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...
...gave half of his earnings to Valli, who had nothing to do with the show. When Valli headlined a big concert last year at New Jersey's Meadowlands Arena, Gaudio got half the profits even though he was in London producing the sound track for the movie Little Shop of Horrors. Naturally, Valli got half the profits for Gaudio's film work...
...Haven's Long Wharf Theater that opened on Broadway last week. Both demonstrate that it is a timeless story of self-delusion. The Broadway version, directed by Arvin Brown, evokes an America struggling to believe in itself. At center stage are an old hand, Richard Kiley, as the machine-shop boss, and a stunning newcomer, Jamey Sheridan, as the son who has always sort of known about, but never allowed himself to acknowledge, his father's crime. They share an easy masculinity, a love of argument, a trust more primal than mutual understanding. Their collisions are brutal. At his best...
...Manhattan's trendy Bloomingdale's moved its large-size Shop for Women from a little noticed spot on the same floor as the maternity department to a more prominent space that is twice as big. Later this year the store plans to add specially styled lingerie, bathing suits and coats to the sportswear featured in the bustling department. It will hire full-figured salesclerks to help make customers feel more at home...
Drawing on feminist insights, the best of the new clinics seek to provide total basic care. They are a kind of one-stop body shop where women can receive a gynecological exam or mammogram; treatment for premenstrual syndrome or osteoporosis; advice on nutrition, weight loss and cosmetic surgery; even counseling for psychological problems. "We have head-to-toe health care," exults Penny Wise Budoff, a family practitioner (and the best-selling author of No More Hot Flashes and Other Good News). Her clinic in Bethpage, N.Y., a former Howard Johnson's restaurant painted lilac with yellow columns, has a staff...