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...Zagat guides are not just for restaurants anymore. The publisher of consumer-based guides is fast diversifying into the wider world of leisure. Zagat last year came out with its first guide to movies. Now this people's-Choice Empire Is Taking On Shopping, Broadway Theater And Even, Later This Year, Music CDs. How do the new books stack up? Here's the notebook survey. (Rated on a scale...
...wondering why WOODY ALLEN isn't holding a movie camera, that's because for the first time he's directing a play, his own Writer's Block, which opens off-Broadway next week. Details about the production are scarce. "I'm the wife of a dentist, living in Connecticut," says actress BEBE NEUWIRTH. "It's sort of a living-room sex farce." So what's it like working with the 67-year-old auteur? "He speaks very simply," says Neuwirth. "There's nothing very fancy going on. There's no intellectual conceptual bull____ going on." God knows, Lilith would never...
...Springer (Michael Brandon) must deal with diaper fetishists, tap-dancing Ku Klux Klan members and finally even the devil himself. Reviewers have gushed, the show's run has been extended into August, and producers are already sniffing around, looking to move it to the West End--maybe even to Broadway. The real Springer's reaction? "I only wish I'd thought of it first." --By James Inverne
DIED. PETER STONE, 73, acclaimed writer of Broadway-musical books and screenplays for television and film, who was the first-ever artist to win a Tony (for 1997's Titanic, among others), an Emmy (for the 1960s drama The Defenders) and an Oscar (for the 1964 Cary Grant comedy Father Goose); of pulmonary fibrosis; in New York City...
...given a bold new interpretation. For the first, how about putting together a couple of the terrific one-acts that Israel Horovitz and Terrence McNally were turning out in the 1960s and '70s (The Indian Wants the Bronx; Next)? For the second, with Susan Stroman and Twyla Tharp reinvigorating Broadway dance, what better time for a new West Side Story? For the third, well, let's just say if anybody is thinking of bringing back Death of a Salesman, it had damned well better star Eminem...