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<text id=93HT0614>
<title>
1983: Show Business
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1983 Highlights
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
January 2, 1984
SHOW BUSINESS
MOST OF '83
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<body>
<p>Longest Goodbye: The 2 1/2-hour final episode of M*A*S*H*,
telecast by CBS last February to unprecedented ratings, and
followed by the Fastest Return: After MASH, unveiled just seven
months later.
</p>
<p>Most Enchanted Evening: Sept. 29, when A Chorus Line became
the longest-running show on Broadway and Director Michael
Bennett restaged his musical as a dazzling class reunion of 330
dancing alumni. Is A Chorus Line the best-ever Broadway
musical? No. But that night it was.
</p>
<p>Least Enchanted Ten Weeks: The Broadway revival of Private
Lives, in which Resistible Force Richard Burton met Immovable
Object Elizabeth Taylor, and the play sank in a wave of critical
catcalls.
</p>
<p>Sexiest Secret Agent: Sean Connery, who returned to play 007
in Never Say Never Again and easily beat Mannequin Roger Moore
(Octopussy) in the battle of the Bonds.
</p>
<p>Squeakiest Door: The homosexuality closet on Broadway, which
was vividly pried open with the Tony-winning Torch Song Trilogy
and the hit musical La Cage aux Folles.
</p>
<p>Saddest Alien: E.T., who found that being box-office champ
could not keep him (and his creator Steven Spielberg) from
getting trampled in the Oscar race by Gandhi.
</p>
<p>Happiest Aliens: The extraterrestrials who populated Return of
the Jedi, the Star Wars sequel that took in almost $300 million
at the motive theaters in its first six months.
</p>
<p>Longest War: ABC's 18-hour The Winds of...brought Herman
Wouk and a platoon of stars to prime time and proved that, with
a $40 million budget and $35 million worth of on-air promotion,
a mini-series can still snag record numbers of viewers.
</p>
<p>Most Versatile Talent: Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who scored
off-Broadway with his dynamo dramas True West and Fool for
Love, and on-screen as the sexy incarnation of Test Pilot Chuck
Yeager in The Right Stuff.
</p>
<p>Highest Rebound: Bette Midler, who stormed back from a jinxed
movie career to recover her standing as Ms. Show Biz with as
50-city concert tour, a cable-TV special, a new album, and a
bestselling book, The Saga of Baby Divine.</p>
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