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...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 and Evita, have separated and are parading...
...both. At last month's trials, winding up four preliminaries and two finals over just six days, Decker finished second in the 1,500, her first loss in four years. Reasoning that "one gold is better than two silvers," she has elected a showdown with South African Sprite Zola Budd, though Decker claims to be more concerned about Rumanian Marciana Puica. In the Helsinki world championships last summer, Decker won both, running Soviet Zamira Zaitseva into the ground. Boycotters Zaitseva and Tatyana Kazankina would be missed more in Los Angeles if that picture were not so fresh and fabulous...
What a difference a year makes: Shirley the Survivor has become Shirley the Superstar. The aging sprite has ripened into the overpowering character actress. The unfocused dilettante has been redefined as the Renaissance woman. The lovable kook with the carefree sex life and oddball ideas has been transmuted into a role model of a self-possessed, successful woman at 50. Shirley MacLaine, who always attracted affection, now commands respect. Her triumph is proof of the power of positive thinking-and action. MacLaine is lean, fit, happier and more attractive than ever. She has worked hard to keep limber physically...
...poltergeists and demons. A case in point: Esteban and the Ghost, adapted by Sibyl Hancock (Dial; $10.95). The hero, a wide-eyed tinker, plies his trade in the hills of Spain until he learns of a reward for anyone who can exorcise the ghost from a forbidding castle. The sprite can overwhelm anything except innocence, and Esteban not only survives but prevails. Together, he and the ghost recover some stolen treasure, a feat that lands one in paradise and the other on the Iberian version of Easy Street. Dirk Zimmer's illustrations have the amiable quality of cartoons...
Coca-Cola's latest annual report contains a two-page picture of a family simultaneously enjoying the company's products. They are drinking Coca-Cola, Tab and Sprite, pouring Minute Maid orange juice and sipping wine, while watching the Columbia Pictures movie Tootsie. If that scene is re-created next year, something will be missing: the wine. Last week Coca-Cola (1982 sales: $6.2 billion) announced plans to sell its wine business to distiller Joseph E. Seagram & Sons for more than $200 million in cash...