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...Thwarted in a headline-making, five-month bid to take over CBS for $5.4 billion, Cable King Ted Turner consoled himself by buying a Hollywood studio instead. He paid $1.5 billion for MGM/UA Entertainment, whose library of 2,200 films includes such classics as Gone With the Wind and Singin' in the Rain...
...from their Broadway brethren, London impresarios have stocked their theaters with musicals. There currently are 19 on display, ranging from ripe chestnuts like The Boy Friend and West Side Story to such instant-nostalgia items as Peg (a new show based on the 1912 J. Hartley Manners comedy) and Singin' in the Rain (with aging sprite Tommy Steele in the Gene Kelly role). The big noise, though, comes from two dueling musicals. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyricist Tim Rice, once the Midas men of British songwriting with the shows Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...
There is the good Stanley Donen and there is the bad Stanley Donen. The good one has for 35 years directed elegant entertainments like Singin' in the Rain, Charade, Two for the Road and Movie Movie. Every once in a while, though, his dark double appears and turns out something like Staircase or Lucky Lady and, now, Blame It on Rio. Inelegant is too mild a word for it; even distasteful doesn't quite cover it. Shall we say disgusting...
Then, 'fore you knowed it, some other Texas boys and girls took Larry's story and made it into a genuine Broadway show. They had singin' and jokin' and jes' enough carryin' on to keep the folks comm in and the vice squad out. They had bad ole Marvin Zindler high-steppin' through his favorite den of iniquity like a virgin bride navigatin' a field of cow chips. They had Sheriff T.J.-they called him Ed Earl-and Miss Edna-they ailed her Mona-lookin' longingly at each other from...
...Home prowls the stage like a liberated tigress, purring and growling out a couple of dozen standards in a voice as supple and gorgeous as she is, and proving that Broadway still needs her when she's 64. Some shows have jettisoned the libretto and returned to basics: all singin' (Ain't Misbehavin'), all dancing (Dancin'). all burlesque (Sugar Babies) or altogether (the revival of Oh! Calcutta!). Indeed, Broadway is almost only singin', only dancin': of the 26 shows now running, 17 are musicals...