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...more than a month, meanwhile, Revlon, a star of the cosmetics industry, has been fighting off the advances of Pantry Pride, a Fort Lauderdale-based retail chain whose stores are mostly in the Southeast. Pantry Pride initially offered $47.50 a share and eventually $53, but Revlon Chairman Michel Bergerac landed a $56-a-share bid, for a total of $1.7 billion, from Forstmann Little, a New York investment firm...
...putting on its war paint. The company's extra touch was a repellent that could be termed poison lipstick. Pantry Pride, a Fort Lauderdale-based supermarket chain, offered $1.8 billion for Revlon, or $47.50 per share. Declaring that the company was not for sale, Revlon's chairman, Michel Bergerac, and its board of directors adopted a variation on the so-called poison pill defense, in which the takeover target makes itself too financially painful to consume. In Revlon's case, the company would allow all shareholders except the hostile one to trade their holdings for debt certificates worth far more...
Even the tourists in Hollywood have a script idea they would like someone to consider. Soviet Poet Turned Filmmaker Yevgeni Yevtushenko, 51, is no exception. He once wanted to make a movie of Cyrano de Bergerac in the U.S.S.R., but authorities turned down the plan. Now he is in California trying to sell Hollywood capitalists on his latest project: a movie about the last years of D'Artagnan and the aging three musketeers. The creator of the 1984 Soviet film Kindergarten describes his new script as a "sparkling tragedy" about the "relationship of heroic people with the Establishment. I think...
...started yet; b) it's already over. Only two new musicals and four new plays--and no certifiable hits--have opened since Labor Day. For the moment, Broadway is dominated by the Brits and the blacks. The Royal Shakespeare Company has extended its repertory run of Cyrano de Bergerac and the enchanting Much Ado About Nothing. But the English are invaders. New native works measure the pulse of the American theater, and just now three new Broadway shows are the creations of blacks. Once again black performers are lighting up the Great White...
...Avon, the R.S.C. may perform as many as five plays a week. The company's tours of North America, though, have displayed only a fraction of its versatility: one play at a time. So the R.S.C.'s twin bill of Much Ado About Nothing and Cyrano de Bergerac, now on Broadway for a ten-week run, offers the American theatergoer a rare opportunity to see the world's top rep company in its element - an "at home" abroad...