Toni Basil a pivotal force in video and dance driven pop
Toni Basil reflects on her career as a pioneering video artist and choreographer. She recalls signing a simultaneous video and recording deal, creating the hit Mickey, and building the Lockers dance troupe with Watts performers. Basil details early life, dance beginnings, and transitioning to music with Word of Mouth and Mickey themes.
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Toni Basil
Wickey
Miss Basil
Chrysalis Records
Perry Ellis
Mickey
Radialchoice
Britain
Chrysalis
America
Word of Mouth
BBC
Chicago
Las Vegas
Basil
Los Angeles
David Winters
Watts
Lockers
Sly Stone
Frank Sinatra
Carnegie Hall
David Bowie
Bette Midler
Bowie
ABC
Warner Brothers Records
Abc-Tv
Mise Basil
Dorsey High School
Carson High
Baby musical rises from fear and change on Broadway
Playwright Sybille Pearson initially refused a musical with Maltby and Shire, then joined them to create Baby a Broadway bound show budgeted at 2.7 million. The musical follows three couples facing impending parenthood, blending grounded moments with a soaring theatrical experience. Pearson praises growth and persistence through theater’s early years.
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New York
Sybille Pearson
Sybille
Lake
Audrey
Maltby
Shire
Richard Maltby Jr
David Shire
Hollywood
Norma Rae
Broadway
Miss Pearson
O'Neill Theater Center
Waterford
Conn
Yale Rep
Manhattan Theater Club
Christine Baranski
Bernadette Peters
Baby
Sally
Mar
Just Our Luck star Gilliland bets on prophesied timing
Actor Richard Gilliland figures his ABC comedy Just Our Luck may hit with luck. A veteran of failed series, he plays TV weatherman Keith Barrow whose life is upended when a genie named Shabu appears. The genie boosts his weather reports and saves his job amid industry pressures.
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Los Angeles
Richard Gilliland
ABC
Bork Hudson
McMillan and Wife
Susan Saint James
Gilliland
John Astin
Operation Petticoat
Lorimar Products
Astin
Fred Silverman
NBC
Keith Barrow
Shabu
T.K. Carter
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Richard Marshall
Joyce W. Cramer
J. Anita Stup
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State Farm
Surance Company
George R. Gelles
Ron Wood
Kitty Reed
Richard T. Meagher
Show Biz
Mary Campbell
the Fox
Venice
Calif
Lorne Michaels
Sha
O'Neill
Dance Unlimited Staley Field
W. 10Th ST. Frederick, MD
Bonnie McMichael
Debbie Licari
Golden Horseshoe Lounge
Frederick, MD
Gigolo
Sun
Chi. &Sr
Peter Ponlan
Frederick
Teena Alf Cinemas
Dan Aykroyd
Eddie Murphy
Trading Places
Matty
Hercules Ea
Toe Maes
Dany
Eons
Lysa Thatcher
Veronica Hart
Kandi Sassour
Grand Junction
Ian-Frederic ‘Sheraton Hotels
Inna & Resorts World
Maryland
Francis Scott Key
East St
Choice
Visa
MasterCard
Mall Cinemas
Rodney Dangerfield
Easy Money
Chevy Chase
wGmus
Sat
Sarahia Rae
Star
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Rosemont Ave
Frederick Md
Seton Ave
Emmitsburg
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