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Brecht's parable on the mutability of human identity charts the progress of Galy Gay, played expertly by Evan Sandman, who after leaving home to buy a fish becomes tangled up with a bloodthirsty trio of soldiers. The soldiers cajole the gullible Gay into impersonating one of their comrades. As the play continues, Gay absorbs the traits, mannerisms and speech patterns of the soldiers, the last act finds him so fully absorbed in his new identity that he is more murderous than any of them...
...final scenes in Nicky's nightclub, wherein J.C. Wolfgang Murad gives an exuberant performance as Nicky, a slick and spangled nightclub owner. Nicky sports Dean hair and the ivories with the flamboyance of Liberace; he's funny to us, but a heart-breaker to the trio from yesteryear. There's a great scene where Fanny (Esme Howard), loosened up after a dip in a jacuzzi, abandons her corsets for a slinky cocktail gown and trips the light fantastic in Nicky's arms, to the tune of "Sophisticated Lady...
Last Monday the trio met with MCA-Universal boss Lew Wasserman, at 81 still the Godfather of Show, and his deputy Sid Sheinberg. Wasserman and Sheinberg were rankling under the ownership of Matsushita, the Japanese conglomerate. MCA was home to both Geffen, whose current music company is housed there, and Spielberg, whose Amblin films are distributed mainly through Universal; the director regards Sheinberg as a mentor of nearly 30 years. "Lew and Sid's intentions were to get back control of their company," says Katzenberg, "and they hoped we'd be an ally to them. We assured them we would...
After Wasserman and Sheinberg gave their blessing to the trio, the contracts for the new company were signed -- in a mere six business days after the bustling Katzenberg had left Disney. And on the seventh day, did he rest? Of course not. He worked the phones...
Three of the biggest names in show business sent tremors rolling through the movie industry when they announced they were pooling their creative and financial resources in order to form their own studio. The trio: Jeffrey Katzenberg, the recently spurned Walt Disney Co. executive who is widely credited with revitalizing that studio's animation division; Steven Spielberg, history's most successful director; and David Geffen, the record-industry mogul. The new firm was rumored to be interested in helping a management-led buyout of an existing competitor -- most likely MCA's Universal -- in order to get a quick start...