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Broadway, that fabulous invalid, never looked frailer or more gallant, never seemed more aware of its glorious past and its tenuous future, than on Tony Award night this past June. Musty old plays and musicals hogged the spotlight from newer works. Producer George Abbott, 106 years old and looking every minute of it, showed up to remind the assembled swells and the TV audience that Damn Yankees, which he had confected four decades ago, was again the liveliest show in town. The cathedral of commercial theater had reopened as a museum and a mausoleum. The place was awash in memories...
...have allowed major players in the telecom and cable business to compete in each other's territories, and would have sped up the development of the i-highway. But Senator Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) was forced to pull the plug after Republican Robert Dole of Kansas broke a tenuous congressional consensus and came out against the bill. The legislation had significant goodies for consumers, says TIME Washington Correspondent Suneel Rattan. "They've tried deregulation in the U.K. and they've had lower prices and better and more kinds of services," says Rattan. Deregulation here seems inevitable, with several court...
Meanwhile, as their colleagues were putting finishing touches on their letter, prosecutors Marcia Clark and William Hodgman were investigating an intriguing, if tenuous, lead. With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C. Cowlings has moved to the fore. Last month Cowlings was described as a gofer to an alleged Los Angeles cocaine kingpin, whom he improbably thanked in court papers for helping him end a freebasing habit...
Hollywood in the '30s and '40s is the novel's principal setting, though the ramified and exceedingly tenuous plot spreads across the U.S. and into the '90s. Dunne invents a child star named Blue Tyler (born Melba Mae Toolate, or perhaps not, because her birth mother is supposed to have sold her as an infant to a Mrs. Toolate for the price of a bus ticket out of -- maybe -- Yuma, Arizona). Blue isn't cute like Shirley Temple (that "midget in drag," as one of Dunne's wise-guy industry types calls Blue's competition). Rather, she conveys adult sexuality...
Jillson said in an interview yesterday that all strategies are tenuous because the group is still in the midst of fundraising...