Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lyrics by Richard Adler (Damn Yankees) (Oct. 23). Jean-Paul Sartre's Kean, drawn from the life of igth century Tragedian Edmund Kean and set in London's Drury Lane Theater, becomes a musical starring Alfred Drake (Nov. 2). The Affairs of Anatol, Arthur Schnitzler's sweet-cynical, turn-of-the-century portrait of a world-weary Viennese Don Juan, inspires The Gay Life, with music and lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz (Nov. 18). The integrated talents of Negro Oscar Brown Jr. have resulted in the book, lyrics and music of Kicks & Co., described...
...will do anything for money, except work. Lucky boy. he has his looks, and because of them he has Philip, a rich young degenerate he met at school in San Francisco. Sometimes together, sometimes as a messy menage a trois with Philip's mistress, they live the sweet life in the pleasure pots of southern Italy. But all is not pleasure in the parasite's paradise. Philip (Maurice Ronet) uses Tom (Alain Delon) to run small errands, keeps a firm grip on the purse strings, taunts him with his poverty, and one day, just for kicks, sets...
...blurb for his work, intended to be passed on to his publisher. "Personally," wrote Walt, "the author of Leaves of Grass is in no sense whatever the 'rough,' 'eccentric,' 'vagabond' or queer person that the commentators persist in making him . . . always bodily sweet & fresh, dressed plainly & cleanly, a gait & demeanor of antique simplicity ... an American Personality, & real Democratic Presence, that not only the best old Hindu, Greek and Roman worthies would at once have responded to, but which the most cultured European would likewise...
...offers a blue velvet ball gown with gold embroidery spilling over the skirt. Fontana, whose colors include something called "adoration red," says of the new line: "It's a reaction against all this talk of war and bombs. In evening a woman should be allowed to wear something sweet and romantic. We need more sentimentality in life...
...Palisades; for a new American playwright is about to arrive, and his considerable ability is exceeded only by the length of his titles. At 24, Arthur L. Kopit is scarcely out of Harvard, but he has already shaped his talents on a series of campus productions that included How Sweet the Wine and How Dark the Color, To Dwell in a Palace of Strangers, Sing to Me Through Open Windows, and On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next. Last week in London, preparing for its presentation next fall in Manhattan, Kopit...