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...Susann Schlaud, spokeswoman for Miller Dyer Spears, the Boston-based architectural firm that designed the pub, said that the company is still working on the construction schedule, but she would not comment further on the delays...
...LIKE A novelization of Beyonce: Behind the Music, written by Jacqueline Susann...
...affectionate acronym) marked the most tonic collaboration-collision of an indie filmmaker and a major studio. 20th Century Fox, which owned the rights to a sequel of the Jacqueline Susann book and hit film "Valley of the Dolls," hired Meyer for the job; and Meyer hired Ebert to write the script. It was just at the time - call it the "Easy Rider" era - when studio bosses briefly convinced themselves they knew nothing about the huge new youth audience and were ready to hand the keys over to dopers, arty types and the occasional tittenfilmer...
...Instead, "BVD" blared its elan and vulgarity in color by DeLuxe. The story - of the Carrie Nations, a girl rock group (a nice novelty idea) on the rise in the L.A. music world - made "BVD" the first major movie drenched in sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. It parodies Susann, Hollywood big-shots, sex-star hangers-on (Edy as Ashley St. Ives) and record producer Phil Spector (a weird man ultimately outed as a homicidal woman). At the end, the movie slices its own jugular and spurts crimson violence before doubling over in a mock-inspirational coda that somehow blends...
...Anne and Neely still self-medicate, stage comebacks and sleep around, but the whole thing feels dutiful, even predictable. In her thinly veiled sketches of the wealthy and well known, Susann was one of the first to wallow in the lifestyles of the rich and infamous. She could not have anticipated the E! network, the O.J. trial and her own literary heirs Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins. In Shadow, the flesh is still willing, but Susann's spirit is gone...