Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before winding up her whirlwind tour at a black-tie dinner given by Banker David Rockefeller, Thatcher gave an address before 2,000 luncheon guests at the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan. Speaking with a sense of theater that many a politician might envy, she warned of Soviet expansionism, reaffirmed the values of old-fashioned liberal democracy and insisted that "resolve" was perhaps the most important quality needed in a leader as the world heads into the 1980s, which she dubbed the "dangerous decade." Said she: "Let us go down in history as the generation which not only understood what...
...lyric short stories and novels, Singer's prose is suffused with drama. In the theater, his work becomes prosaic. The notion of a girl deceived by a man who does not change his costume or his appearance demands a magic that neither the manic cast nor Director Stephen Kanee can sustain. For this tenuous fantasy, an entertainment tax is difficult enough. A credulity tax is insupportable. - Stefan Kanfer
...rock star, is one of the few commercial hits of the fall season, and enthusiastic word of mouth is proving more potent than any advertising. Meanwhile, for those who can make it to Broadway, the lady's other, outrageously funny side is on view at the Palace Theater in Bette! Divine Madness. It is the hottest ticket in Manhattan...
...entrepreneurial brains are provided by BJ. Farber, a fictional composite of those remarkable immigrants who parlayed dry-goods stores, nickelodeons and theater chains into movie fiefs. They are here too: Goldwyn, Mayer, Zukor, et al. Farber is a lovable old shark. The book's unlovable shark is Hareem Adani, a New York-based conglomerate chief out to add Farber Films to his corporate shell collection...
...down (after dinner with Fred Astaire, the Jimmy Stewarts, Claudette Colbert, the Gregory Pecks and the Henry Fondas) and tells him his life story. It is an epic feature that includes three wives, mistresses, ups, downs and flashbacks from movie history. Farber is present at the Creation. After his theater chain folds he becomes production assistant to Mack Sennett at D.W. Griffith's Biograph studios in New York. Sennett and Mabel Normand carry on their Keystone Kops love affair; Harold Lloyd simulates climbing the side of a building on a facade laid flat on the floor; Fatty Arbuckle takes...