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Just one element is missing from this success story: Chess has never been staged. At the moment it exists only as a two-record LP. Following the precedent he and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber set with Superstar and Evita, Rice has released an "original cast album" of his latest pop opera before there was ever a show. The Chess set thus functions as an out-of-town tryout, a promotional gambit and a thumpingly successful fund raiser--so much so that Rice, Andersson and Ulvaeus will be providing most of the (pounds)1 million capital needed this fall when Chess...
...most of them at low cost from various suppliers. The largest chunk of its schedule consists of entertainment shows purchased through a special arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corp. These BBC programs run the gamut from classy mini-series (Jane Eyre) to music specials (An Evening with Andrew Lloyd Webber) and sitcoms (The Fainthearted Feminist with Lynn Redgrave). The schedule is also filled with concerts, operas, ballets and other fine-arts fare. But the network's executives admit that they are trying to attract new viewers with shows of broader appeal. "We have a very straightforward mission," says...
...raider. Last summer, in such a ploy, Steinberg bought 11.1% of Walt Disney Productions. After a long battle with Disney management, he sold the stock to the company for $32 million more than he had paid for it. Says Lee Isgur, a longtime follower of Disney stock for Paine Webber, a Wall Street broker: "It was obvious that it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for Steinberg to buy Disney. But he played the publicity game very well. The stock was bid up, and he made a nice profit." Just before Disney, Steinberg greenmailed Quaker State Oil Refining, buying...
...with stocks in companies that produce machine tools, which climbed 21% in January, and shares in hospital-management firms, up 17%. Not surprisingly, brokerage houses stand to profit handsomely from the running of the bulls. Stock in Merrill Lynch has jumped 25.5% in 1985, to 33 7/8, while Paine Webber has surged...
According to Webber, Chun's government has already forbidden press coverage of Kim's arrival at the airport. The only documentation of the event will be by those reporters who travel with Kim to South Korea. Webber suggested that the Aquino incident was made possible by the absence of press coverage...