Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the old theaters, one came from a mud-wrestling entrepreneur, another from Michael Eisner. Disney's chairman became interested in owning a theater in New York because the company's theatrical version of Beauty and the Beast was imminent on Broadway. As it happens, the architect Robert A.M. Stern, who had devised post-Johnson-Burgee guidelines for 42nd Street, is a member of Disney's board. Stern told Eisner about the New Amsterdam. On a grim winter day, Stern and Cora Cahan took Eisner, his wife and son on a tour of the theater, shuttered since...
...group stumbled into a magnificent wreck. Water poured through a hole in the roof, mushrooms grew on the floor. "The theater was almost impassable," Stern recalls. "Plaster was all over the stairs, like an alpine slag heap. We each carried giant flashlights and wore hard hats. Birds were flying through, dropping their stuff as we passed. It was a mess, but of course a very romantic mess. Michael was quick to see not only the romance but the potential." What Eisner also came to see, after two years of tough negotiations, was a deal that included low-interest loans from...
...series certainly has no shortage of rerun fodder for such a venture. During its decade on-air, Biography has produced more than 480 episodes, looking at subjects from Jesus Christ and Julius Caesar to Howard Stern and Judy Garland. Each hour (occasional specials air at two hours) moves along economically, dwelling on no single aspect of a person's life but rather cramming in the whole cradle-to-grave (or cradle-to-this-minute) story. While a filmmaker could produce an entire documentary on the subject of, say, Attila the Hun's retreat from Rome, Biography's look...
...exploring issues of Jewish self-hatred; giving hints of The Glass Menagerie and then taking a sharp right turn. Hollywood will probably shower the play with stars, but most likely will miss the delicacy of Ron Lagomarsino's understated direction and Dana Ivey's touching performance as Lala's stern, no-nonsense mother. She can get a laugh and evoke a lifetime of prefeminist frustration with a single line ("If I were running the Dixie Bedding Company, we'd all be rich by now") and find fresh heartbreak in the simplest lament: "I thought we were going to be happy...
...culture that exists behind the words "men in drag." Where else can you see a chorus line reminiscent of Radio City Music Hall with men who, in high heels and bustiers, can pass for mildly attractive women? Where but the Pudding can you understand the cultural significance of Howard Stern's promoting his new movie on David Letterman wearing a blond wig and nylons? Where else but the Pudding, a Harvard institution by dint of being an institution and the nation's oldest the atrical company? Eat well (for the Hasty Pudding recipe, check out Lydia Maria Child...