Word: sro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Big Guy might have been wearing a Crimson hockey jersey, the icemen needed more than just a few prayers to defeat the gutsy Tigers. While the penalty box became a typical "SRO" affair for Harvard, the Crimson's special teams were putting on a show...
...Industry Analyst Paul Kagan notes, "essentially a Rip Van Winkle business." Exhibitors let their urban theaters decay into rancid zoos, with crummy projection and that mysterious glop that makes your shoes stick to the flypaper floor. Or they sliced handsome old palaces into tiny tenement cinemas, where SRO could mean not standing room only but single-room occupancy. In the suburbs the exhibitors moved into malls, where their "plexes" had all the charm of welfare clinics. The malls may have saved movies, bringing picture houses into bustling new neighborhoods, but the salvage job was short on pizazz. No wonder...
...Sartzetakis. "The country was in a mess," mourns one of the show's comedians, "then Sartzetakis came along too. Is it possible to look at this fathead and not laugh?" Added to those insults were plenty of barbs deploring the President's allegedly pompous ways. What made the show SRO, however, was the fact that its two main actors had just been arrested, briefly jailed, then tried and acquitted on the basis of their performance. The charge: defamation of the presidency...
...brilliant 50-year career. "Jazz is a hundredfold more popular now than it was when I was younger," he says, "and I know more than I did earlier." Last week the bebopping hornman kicked off a two-week engagement at Michael's Pub in Manhattan for an appreciative SRO crowd. Later this year PBS will air a tribute to him staged at the Wolf Trap music festival and featuring Vocalist Carmen McRae and Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The jazz legend still wails on his trademark bent-up horn, because, he says, "you hear the sound quicker. I never blow straight...
Last week Feinstein finished an SRO engagement at the Plush Room in San Francisco's York Hotel; on May 5 he will open at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington. In the fall he will tour Europe with Liza Minnelli, who is, aside from his mother Mazie, perhaps his biggest fan of all. "We're joined at the hip," says Minnelli. "Michael has real affection for the material. He's romantic in a way that so few people are nowadays...