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...needs it? It's a mausoleum for foreigners and fogies. It's got no stars, no premier playwrights, no float-out-of-the-theater magic. Some days that may be true. But last Monday a few dozen eminences from movies, TV and even the stage convened at the Broadhurst Theatre for a little old-fashioned dazzle. The occasion was a benefit called "The Playwright's the Thing," an evening of skits and play excerpts by three superb American comic dramatists: Christopher Durang, Terrence McNally and Wendy Wasserstein. The event, of which TIME was the presenting sponsor, raised money for Broadway...
Stars? They were lined up in the Broadhurst's wings like a queue for The Phantom Menace. Steve Martin played a nasty shrink to Stockard Channing's frazzled patient. Nathan Lane and Swoosie Kurtz as two actors waiting for an opening-night review ran their fingernails under each other's egos. Betty Buckley as a modern-media Medea got lectured by a toughlove angel (Whoopi Goldberg). Stunning Susan Sarandon was a fretful Southern mama trying to marry off her shy, sly son (delicious David Hyde Pierce), who had eyes only for his glass menagerie of cocktail swizzle sticks...
...shacks are "representative of the student poverty caused by the cuts. We call them `Cut-back City," said Owen R. Broadhurst, a freshman affiliated with the group. He said these structures were different from earlier shanties erected as protests against the apartheid policies of the South African government...
...There are six shacks and a few pup tents up right now, and students have been spending the night in them since February 24th," Broadhurst said. "There are usually 12 to 20 people a night, and different people keep joining so the numbers are growing daily," he said...
...speech before the newspaper publishers, Hart charged that the Herald reporters had "refused to interview the very people who could have given them the facts before filing their story." Executive Editor Heath Meriwether sharply disputed the charge, pointing out that the Sunday story contained responses from both Broadhurst and Hart. Says Savage: "If Hart had even hinted that he wanted to talk to us again later, we would have done that. But he never told us he would give us any further information...