Word: impresario
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...Kramer's reputation is stale, Coe's is forgotten, though as producer of Philco Playhouse and later for Playhouse 90, he was the primo impresario of TV drama. Jon Krampner's engrossing The Man in the Shadows: Fred Coe and the Golden Age of Television (Rutgers University Press; 243 pages; $32.95) helps restore the stature of the Tennessean who made trouble in the studio and at home--he told his pregnant wife, "When the child is born, I want a divorce"--but was still one of TV's smartest, boldest pioneers...
...triumph for the stage and for Drabinsky, the brash impresario who has come from the Great White North to show the Great White Way how to do it. Unlike traditional Broadway production organizations, Drabinsky's Toronto-based Livent Inc. not only owns theaters (six of them, open or being renovated, in Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago and on 42nd Street in Manhattan) but also seeks to fill them with homegrown shows that Drabinsky initiates from scratch. Livent uses profits from long-running road companies to finance new works, which may run a year or more in cities like Toronto before going...
...decided to lure the comic back to TV after catching his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in November 1995. The mogul's first step was to dissuade Hall from doing a film he had conceived in which the comic would have starred as a two-faced rap impresario. "It was like Nino Brown meets Shecky Green," Hall explains. "Jeffrey didn't think it was right...
DIED. COLONEL TOM PARKER, 87, Elvis Presley's impresario; of stroke complications; in Las Vegas. The onetime carnival barker discovered Presley in 1955 and then masterminded the King's career while taking oversize percentages for himself. After Presley's death in 1977, his heirs sued Parker, and in 1982 the flashy pitchman relinquished all future income connected with his client. DIED. JULIA BOGGS, 95, party doyenne; in Washington. From the 1940s until 1972, the North Carolina-born Boggs was housekeeping supervisor for the Supreme Court, arranging the Justices' dinners and teas, and later became a behind-the-scenes manager...
...Secrets & Lies A white working-class London woman and her long-lost black daughter, unaware of each other's existence for almost 30 years, are reunited in this unexpectedly sunny drama from Britain's Mike Leigh, the improv impresario known for corrosive studies of family breakdowns. An epic in miniature, S&L is nearly 2 1/2 hours of bruising tenderness and bravura acting, yet it sails along with the expectation that some families can end up with the happiness they have worked so hard to avoid. Expect Brenda Blethyn, a teary tornado as the mother, to be in an aisle...