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...with his natural reserve and sometimes phlegmatic manner, Mondale seems ill equipped to drive the inspirational message home Democratic Strategist Robert Strauss says that his man's empathy is not transmitted well on TV. "When you get past the show-biz part of it and talk about family values and American values," Strauss says, "Mondale doesn't have to take a back seat to anyone. But he doesn't handle the tear in the eye anywhere near as well. It's like everything else. It depends on how you do it." New York Governor Mario Cuomo...
DIED. Arthur Schwartz, 83, Broadway and Hollywood composer who with his chief lyricist, the late Howard Dietz, wrote some of the most sophisticated show tunes of the '30s, including Dancing in the Dark, Something to Remember You By, You and the Night and the Music, By Myself, and later, and perhaps most memorably, the show-biz anthem That's Entertainment;'m Kintnersville...
...Life and Fast Times of John Belushi (Simon and Schuster, $17.95). The book, kicked off with a front-page serialization launch and favorable review in the Washington Post, where Au thor Woodward heads up the investigative reporting staff, is drawing the kind of hoopla usually kindled by more conventional show-biz behemoths; an excerpt has also appeared in Playboy. Like some Hollywood superproduction, the book boasts a long list of cameo appearances by stars (Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Carrie Fisher and miscellaneous The Rolling Stones) whose presence has nothing of importance to contribute save what agents...
...Friday, Woodward goes for just the facts, and they do not take him very far or deep. Since many of the facts are known from the headlines anyway, Woodward must resort to details. In large part, this means recounting endless rounds of drug blowouts, frazzled work sessions and show-biz parties. There are occasional testimonials to Belushi's sweetness (he and his wife make love on a Martha's Vineyard cliff; he buys his father a ranch in California and settles some family debts), but the book is swamped by examples of his "monomania." There is frequent mention...
...fact, virtually no characters, as Author-Director James Lapine follows Seurat's lead and dehydrates his actors into cardboard stereotypes. Nor is there a surfeit of "humma-mamumma-mamum-mable melodies," Stephen Sondheim's derisively witty phrase from his last show, Merrily We Roll Along. Sondheim long ago renounced such simple show-biz pleasures; neither Dot nor the audience gets to go to the Follies. This score is often doggedly mimetic, achieving its pointillist effects note by Johnny-one-note. Nearly every number begins with a staccato verse and chorus; it soars toward traditional musical passion only...