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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father giving me was when he overheard me calling a little black boy with whom I was playing a 'nigger.' He told me, 'It wasn't anything you did that made you white, wasn't anything he did that made him black,' and I was never to use that word again." It was no defense, said Helms, that the boy had called him a "white cracker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JESSE HELMS: Scourge of the Senate | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

Just a few days earlier, Choreographer Debbie Allen had been counseling the young performers of Carrie about how to handle sudden stardom. But as the disheartening word spread backstage, the ensemble members realized that they might have to learn instead to handle sudden unemployment. Last week, less than 72 hours after it opened as the Broadway season's most opulent American musical, Carrie closed. Stephen King's 1974 novel about a tormented teenager with psychic powers became a best seller, then a multiple Oscar nominee as a 1976 movie. But onstage it set records of a different sort: losing more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Biggest All-Time Flop Ever | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...what usually determines the fate of unfavorably reviewed shows: he had run out of money. To have any hope of turning things around, he needed an additional $2 million or more. That would pay for TV advertising and cover losses for up to two months until the ads and word of mouth might bring in a profitably large audience. "I made an economic decision to cut my losses," said Kurz in his Hamburg office. "Broadway is Russian roulette, and I'm not a gambler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Biggest All-Time Flop Ever | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...advertising-and-word-of-mouth strategy worked for Evita (1979), which opened to unenthusiastic reviews yet ran for almost four years. But it is not infallible: an additional $1 million enabled the 1985 Singin' in the Rain to survive almost a year, yet apparently did not recoup the show's $5 million- plus investment. Still, says Carrie's composer Michael Gore, whose credits include the movie Fame, "you can't produce a Broadway show without a reserve fund. That is my major dissatisfaction with this show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Biggest All-Time Flop Ever | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...slim novel Capote produced at 23 was Other Voices, Other Rooms, which told of the painful growing up of a sensitive Southern child named Joel Knox, widely assumed to be a stand-in for the author. It was well written and convincingly atmospheric, with no word out of place. But what made Other Voices a sensation was an extravagantly campy photo of Capote on the dust jacket, reclining on a couch, wearing bangs and a look of degenerate satiation. His sexual orientation could not have been clearer if he had held a rose between his teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Troubles of the Tiny Terror CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

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