Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...himself back in working order. But then -- and here life takes a sharp left away from art -- things started to come around. In 1988 Childs made a smash debut album, co-produced by Ricketts and featuring a beautiful, spooky ballad called Where's the Ocean. And Baerwald finished a solo project, his just released Bedtime Stories, that makes a worthy companion piece to Boomtown. That's what they call a wow finish...
Elliot Loves, which opened off-Broadway last week in an elegant staging by Mike Nichols, starts with a solo lament by a middle-aged man (Anthony Heald) on the verge of proposing marriage. It ends with him and his intended (Christine Baranski) having their first really honest conversation, via the telephone. Safely alone, if groping toward connection, they engage in dialogue by means of shared soliloquy. In the middle, the woman meets the man's old high school buddies -- an encounter that the lovers interpret in opposite ways and analyze to oblivion. Feiffer deftly satirizes self-awareness and communication, even...
...anchor job since Barbara Walters failed to perform ratings magic for a sluggish ABC reporting staff in the mid-1970s. Waiting in the wings are Diane Sawyer at ABC and Connie Chung at CBS. But the big three networks have been unwilling to alter the competitive lineup of solo anchors that has stood unchanged for almost seven years, although many observers think viewers are yearning for fresh faces...
Ratings for Dan Rather, who has held the solo spot at CBS since March 1981, have dropped 55% from their peak. Brokaw is down 44% from his high point. And while Peter Jennings, the regular ABC anchor since 1983, has helped lift his network into the lead, the gains by ABC World News Tonight do not fully offset the losses at the rival networks. Something new is needed to bring the lost viewers back. To judge from the past eight months of surging public affection for her, Jane Pauley just may have...
Television provided Fleck with the chance to escape what he eventually felt were the Revival's constraints. Two years ago, producers of the Lonesome Pine Specials asked him to do a solo show. Bela Fleck and Guests began with the tux-clad banjoist joining the Blair String Quartet in a four-movement classical work by Fleck and composer Edgar Meyer. It ended with a jazz section riffed by Bela and the trio that became the Flecktones: Howard Levy on keyboards and harmonica, the brothers Victor and Roy ("Future Man") Wooten on bass guitar and Drumitar (a guitar wired to electric...