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...Neill Theater on Broadway as a home for his plays. That had the unexpected result of making him the employer of his mother: she came to work on the box-office telephone ("Some mothers give you their milk, others sell tickets to Promises, Promises"). He later sold the theater???he has no ownership interest in the theater named for him, which belongs to the Nederlander chain?and now the bulk of his assets are stocks and bonds and the royalty rights to his scripts...
...simultaneously involving and distancing the audience, Nickleby embraces and reconciles many theatrical modes?realism and impressionism, the medieval pageant and the Victorian theater, Brecht and the Living Theater???while telling Dickens' story with enough conviction to make the fine hairs stand up on every playgoer's neck...
...have to replace the bad with the good." Only days before its opening, Beatty was in New York City refining the details of his movie's release. "Anyone who would make films and ignore the final phase?how it's projected on the screen, the speakers in the theater???is not realistic," he says. "You can put in years and have the entire thing erased by a light bulb. As the producer, I have nobody to blame but myself if the movie doesn't come...
...What I want from this visit," Sadat had told TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn during the historic flight that took him to Jerusalem, "is that the wall created between us and Israel, the psychological wall, be knocked down." The wall fell. The astonishing spectacle was global theater???the images caromed off television satellites to viewers around the world. In a wash of klieg lights, the Egyptian who had hurled his armies across the Suez Canal in 1973 stood at attention next to the old Irgun guerrilla whose name has been a dark legend to Palestinian Arabs for 30 years...
Would-be spectators lined up before dawn in order to be among those allowed to pass through the weapons-screening device set up outside the cramped courtroom. The trial, said one lawyer-spectator, had all the elements of theater???"a script, actors, wardrobe, props." The trial should clear up at least some of the mysteries still shrouding Patty's 19½ months with the Symbionese Liberation Army as Captive Patty and Comrade, willing or not, Tania Hearst. But unless and until Patty takes the stand, the overwhelming presence in the legal drama will not be the Hearst heiress herself...