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...Plot, admirably scripted by Don Jackoby and Wesley Strick from a story by Jackoby and Al Williams, centers on a giant Venezuelan spider, accidentaly imported into a small northern Californian town in the coffin of its first victim. The belligerant arachnid then mates with a harmless domestic spider, creating a deadly army of offspring which quickly goes about killing members of the unsuspecting populace. The remainder of the film concerns itself with the town's efforts to rid itself of the newly acquired menace...
Julian Sands (Room With a View) plays Dr. James Atherton, a world reknowned scientist who leads the expedition responsible for bringing the killer spider into the United States. Atherton is completely single-minded in his pursuit of knowledge, exhibiting no fear of the deadly spiders, mocking Jenning's almost hysterical fear of them...
Marcos is the first wife of a foreign head of state to stand trial in an American court. U.S. prosecutors say she wove a "spider's web of deceit and corruption" that stretched halfway around the world. With testimony from 95 witnesses, the prosecutors have outlined a tangled tale of secret Swiss bank accounts and laundered money, forged signatures and phony names, bribes and kickbacks, smuggled paintings, a phantom ship loaded with Japanese gold from World War II, and offshore shams and scams of such complexity that one wonders how the Marcoses ever had time to run their country...
...group debuts in May with an adaptation of Manuel Puig's The Kiss of the Spider Woman. The score is by John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret) and the staging by Harold Prince (The Phantom of the Opera). Says Prince, winner of 16 Tony Awards for musicals: "I see this as an opportunity for young composers, lyricists, librettists and directors to have a career like I had -- to be able to experiment, to fail, and from those failures go on to create successes...
Following Spider Woman will be works by, among others, songwriters Marvin Hamlisch and Jimmy Webb, novelist Erica Jong and playwrights Arthur Kopit, Marsha Norman and Peter Stone. Financial backers include Capital Cities/ABC, Columbia Artists Management and Jujamcyn, which owns five Broadway theaters. Investors have provided about a fourth of the first year's $10 million budget, with the balance projected to be earned in ticket sales, program advertising and merchandising...