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...Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater opened "What the Butler Saw" by Joe Orton last night. Producer Tina Tseng and director David McMahon took a tired comedy and made an equally tired show. The cast of "What the Butler Saw" are on the last leg of their journey through the summer and they are starting to show their weariness...
...record companies move even more product overseas than the TV and movie studios, although American singers aren't quite so exportable. It is almost exclusively black American women (and black men with long hair) who have current hits overseas -- Janet Jackson, Tina Turner, Gloria Gaynor, Terence Trent D'Arby. The one U.S. band with a Top 10 hit in Japan, curiously, is the has-been Kid Creole and the Coconuts -- a fact that was not, happily, raised by either side in Tokyo last week...
...When we were together she was so kind and sweet and understanding. If I said to her, 'Go shoot that guy!' she'd shoot him without even thinking whether it was right or wrong. We were that tight." --IKE TURNER REMINISCING ABOUT HIS MARRIAGE TO TINA TURNER, WHO HAS ACCUSED HIM OF BEATING...
...audition process for the grueling part stretched out over a month. "They gave you six songs," she recalls, "including performing Proud Mary top to bottom. They gave you four or five scenes -- young Tina, '60s Tina, '70s Tina, dragged-down-the-hall-and-get-a-fra ctured-left-hand Tina. It was rough." So was the filming. Bassett really did fracture her hand, and she had to soak her feet in ice after two 17-hour days of shooting the Proud Mary number in 3-in. heels. The only sour note for some is that Bassett's final number...
SHOW BUSINESS: Tina's Turn on Film...