Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author recommends that parents react tolerantly to the child's willfulness and compulsive no-saying at this stage. Parents should resist some demands, give in to others. A child who wins too often emerges "with an overly extended, overly grand notion of its power." But a child who loses too many battles "emerges from its second birth with a pervasive sense of humiliation and self-doubt." If so, it will develop into a compliant child whose protest may emerge late as bedwetting, foolish behavior or theft...
...match the surroundings, Producer Donn Arden has outfitted the world's largest stage with a two-hour floor show to rival the biggest movies in MGM history. He has created similar shows on four continents during his 30-year career as king of showgirl spectaculars. Says Arden: "I find the prettiest girls, put them in the finest feathers and then sink them on the Titanic or burn them up in the Hindenburg. Nobody can do girls and gimmicks like me." The Reno production, his most lavish ever, cost $5 million, but the result is a show that would have...
...didn't it? Oh, boy, would I like to do this one. Chorus girls, feathers L.B.M.: Sure, but first we gotta get a gimmick, something to let them know the old lion is roaring again, something bigger than anybody ever did before. Like we put a huge stage in the world's biggest casino, and we lay out, say, a couple of football fields' worth of crap tables and slot machines. A few high rollers will pay for a lot of feathers...
L.B.M.: Recreational vehicle. Trailer to you, and 292 hookups mean places to plug in the lights. But let's get back to the show. We want a real blockbuster, lots of chests and feathers and special effects. I'll get them to build a stage just like the old days -biggest damn thing anybody ever saw, big enough to land an airplane...
...there, so we'll get Arden to line up about a hundred of them-nice tall ones or they'll look like pygmies on a three-story-high stage-and about four dozen terrific male dancers too. We need to have somebody wearing white tie, right? Then we get him to take off on some good old MGM movies, say a couple of musicals, an old Gable film, maybe an Astaire number...