Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week we welcome back an old friend after a two-year sabbatical: TIME'S Show Business section. The editors missed it, and thought perhaps readers did too. The occasion seems particularly appropriate: the staging of Coco, with Katharine Hepburn in her first Broadway musical playing the role of Fashion Designer Coco Chanel. The story was written by another Kate-Katie Kelly, who came to TIME as a researcher in 1966, has been a writer since July 1968. In subsequent weeks, Katie and her co-workers will range over the entire Show Business scene from Broadway to Hollywood-wherever...
...sing? "I've been singing all my life," was the answer. Will he dance? "No dancing," retorted Muhammad Ali, otherwise known as Cassius Marcellus Clay. Next month the deposed heavyweight champion will make his Broadway debut, starring in the musical version of the Black Power play. Big Time Buck White. What's more, he has some pretty strong notions about what kind of show it will and will not be. As befits a Muslim minister, he insisted on a contract guaranteeing that there will be no unseemly language in the script. And there will be no nudity. There...
...such mission, she escapes by hiding among a herd of goats. The animals, mostly pets of children in Wyoming where the scene was shot, proved to be unruly hams before the camera. Said the slightly battered actress afterward: "I've been butted around before in Hollywood and on Broadway -but never as accurately as by those goats...
Handsome Payoff. Israelis sometimes wonder whether they can really afford such an expensive scientific establishment. Yet it regularly produces so many scientific dividends that its irrepressible president, Meyer Weisgal, 75, a former Broadway impresario, leaves on fund-raising tours with these parting words to his scientists: "Boys and girls, I am going to tell many lies about you and the Weizmann Institute. When I come back, I want all the lies to be true...
...Sunday New York Times. But by 7:30 Monday morning, people were falling into line for a show so long awaited and so much talked about that advertising was almost superfluous. By noon, the line stretched along 51st Street, turned the corner at shuttered Lindy's onto Broadway, headed uptown, rounded the corner again and began backing up into 52nd Street. The first day of box-office take for Coco, which starts previews next week, was a record-breaking $35,000 (at $3 to $15 a seat...