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Though George seems more comfortable on the air than when she began in January (she no longer flubs lines with abandon, like referring to Andrew Lloyd Webber as the composer of Jesus Christ Superstore), she is still capable of the silly gaffe. CBS executives stand strongly by her, even after her infamous invitation to Gary Dotson and Cathleen Crowell Webb, the main characters in the recent Chicago rape-testimony recantation, to hug on the air. "We needed a high-powered, experienced TV personality to draw people away from two established, successful competitors," says Executive Producer Jon Katz. "Phyllis George will...
...There is nothing appropriate in either Cambridge or Boston, spacewise or acoustically. This should be great to work in-there's nothing comparable around," Cheryl Webber, of the women's chorus Libana, says of the Center's 200-seat auditorium...
...outlets in Europe and Australia, say that he relishes a role in running his acquisitions. "Normally, when you have an egomaniac, or, to be polite, a dominant personality, his taste is reflected in choices that are made," says Lee Isgur, an analyst for the brokerage firm of Paine Webber Inc. "Six to twelve months from now, everybody at Fox will be wondering, What will Rupert say about this...
...Rice, who studied at the Sorbonne (though not very hard) before teaming with Lloyd Webber for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1967), the Chess saga began with a two-page plot outline in 1977. But neither Lloyd Webber nor Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line) was interested in composing the score. As Rice, a large, genial Londoner of 40 who looks like a relaxed Anthony Burgess, recalled in New York last week, "Then in 1982 I heard that Benny and Bjorn were keen to write something beyond the confines of ABBA. They wanted the chance...
...Chess is in U.S. record stores, competing for attention with Lloyd Webber's latest composition, Requiem. In one Tower Records outlet in Manhattan, a captious music fan has written on the Requiem place mark: WATCH OUT, WEBBER--TIM RICE'S MIDDLE NAME IS SALIERI. Rice laughs off the barb; he disclaims any hostility toward his former colleague, even as he stifles persistent rumors of a reunion. "Andrew and I had eight or ten years together that were enormously successful and great fun. But now it's been eight or ten years since we wrote our last show, Evita...