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...outdo the special effects of Star Wars-and reap its profits. "At one time it was exciting to see Superman hold up the end of a truck," says Tom Mankiewicz, the last of five scriptwriters brought in to turn comic strip into film strip. "Now you see Lindsay Wagner do things like that every week on TV for free. So we had a problem, and Superman's feats had to be very, very spectacular. We had to go whole...
...Broadway, Tom Courtenay continued in Otherwise Engaged by flashlight, with an actor shouting "Erring!" when a phone was supposed to ring and humming the overture to Wagner's Parsifal in place of a recording. About a quarter of the 2,000 people who were watching the stage show Salute to New York City stayed on at Radio City Music Hall after the lights went out, snacking on pretzels and Italian ices bought from street vendors who crowded into the foyer. At Shea Stadium, play stopped in the sixth inning, with the Chicago Cubs leading the New York Mets...
...Metropolitan Opera in Boston presents Wagner's "Lohengrin" (1850). Hynes Veterans Auditorium, Boston For tickets and info...
...worth the vinyl. He has of late taken up conducting, and his lyric versions of Schubert's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 8 ("Unfinished") can be found on an Angel LP. Yet Fischer-Dieskau has found the time and talent for a new career: literature. Last year he produced Wagner and Nietzsche, a lively account of the celebrated battle of composer and philosopher...
Beyond that, the Brown game has a special meaning for the Harvard coaching staff. Crimson head man Bob Scalise played for the Bruins between 1969 and 1971, garnering All-American honors and a national scoring title. Two springs after Scalise graduated, Crimson assistant Jeff Wagner captained the 1973 Bruin squad, the only team to break Cornell's hold on the Ivy title in the last seven years...