Word: theater
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Siskel and Ebert still do not get along, at least in public, but they have put that antagonism to good use. Their show, originally called Opening Soon at a Theater Near You and later Sneak Previews, went national in 1978 and soon became the highest-rated series in PBS history. In 1982 they moved to commercial syndication. Today, under the title Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, they reach an audience of 8 million, ranking in the Top Ten of all once-a-week syndicated shows...
...deterioration of his creative side. On the podium, with his exaggerated gestures and lugubrious tempos, he has become a parody of himself. As a composer, he has squandered the brilliant promise of West Side Story and the ballet Fancy Free on the embarrassing bathos of the 1971 theater piece Mass and his 1983 opera A Quiet Place. The unsavory life of the man chronicled in Peyser's portrait of the artist is almost irrelevant to the greater tragedy of the composer. Wealthy, acclaimed, esteemed, he and his reputation will survive this biography. Still, Bernstein is likely to go into...
...very long," he fumes. But the showman in Taylor is able to put it in perspective. "There is," he remembers, "what no amount of paid advertising could have brought -- immediate notoriety." The two coexisting reactions -- of the egocentric artist and the canny producer -- reveal a true man of the theater, and in Private Domain Taylor has written one of the best and most candid theater books to appear in a long time...
...Metromedia Technologies uses computers to convert photos or other artwork into billboards up to 17 ft. by 54 ft. within just six hours. Another company, Torrance-based Computer Image Systems, is creating a 41-ft. portrait of Liza Minnelli that will rise this week over New York's Palace Theater...
...Theater...