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Larry Gelbart is a Hollywood rarity. In a youth-obsessed town, Gelbart, an accomplished screenwriter and playwright, is busier than ever at 75. There's the film about Pancho Villa for HBO. A jazz song cycle at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum. The sequel to The Candidate for Robert Redford. A new musical about Napoleon. A Las Vegas spectacular about Busby Berkeley...
...level of participation was a lot higher prior to the war, in large part because this is a school of public policy,” he said. “Since the war has actually started, the volume has begun to taper off—we are not a military institution...
...just looking to swim fast,” Evans said. “We taper at the end of the season, so this meet doesn’t really give an indication of how fast I’m going to swim...
...think it’s a great advantage for us because we’re able to work hard this week and taper next week,” Omartian said...
This hokey 1958 Broadway hit has justly languished in dinner theaters ever since. Now, in a radical revision at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, playwright David Henry Hwang treats the original like "some kind of weird Oriental minstrel show," as one character puts it, and wraps its assimilationist anthems into a merry multicultural trip from Tiananmen Square to San Francisco's Chinatown. Director-choreographer Robert Longbottom adds a dollop of kitsch--and somehow the mix is funny and clever. It even jerks a tear or two. Broadway, get ready...