Word: exception
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...happen. Indeed, not one of the 120,000 Vietnamese and 20,000 Americans and others evacuated in the last month was lost to enemy action. But some Vietnamese were left behind when Ford early in the morning of April 30 ordered the evacuation ended, except for the handful of Americans still left...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR hasn't been in a movie since 1988 except for a bit part in The Flintstones, but that hasn't dampened interest in two new biographies of her--or lessened Liz's outrage over one of them, C. David Heymann's Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor. The book reportedly alleges that she was given 300 prescriptions for pills in 1981 alone. Taylor's lawyer, Neil Papiano, who failed to quash an nbc mini-series based on the book, says a lawsuit is imminent "if in fact the book says what everybody says it says...
...Except that EFX isn't on Broadway. It's 2,240 miles off Broadway, at the MGM Grand, in a desert stopover called Las Vegas. Well, somebody has to put on musical spectacles, and Vegas has a dozen or so. This year, while Manhattan's mainstream theaters could find only a single original tune show--and that, Lloyd Webber's Sunset Blvd., was an import from London and Los Angeles--Vegas' casino hotels are proving that the old form still has sass, vibrancy and audience appeal. And size. And how! Four big productions will have opened by Memorial...
Vegas isn't the first entertainment town to discover that, ultimately, nothing is unique--except the producer's claims of uniqueness. Listen to Jeff Kutash describe Splash II, scheduled to open late next month at the Riviera. "This is the first truly interactive show!" he exclaims. "The audience will have a laser battle with the performers. We've waterized the whole theater-turned it into a giant submarine to take the audience on a tour of wonderful places like Atlantis and Shangri-La." You might think it difficult to get a submarine up the Himalayas--but in Vegas, nothing...
...goal, junior Cheryl Frank continued to parry opponents shots with outstanding consistency. Except for the Brown game, Frank has kept every opponent below ten goals...