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Review - Books: Don't cry for either of them Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice still cannot quite shake each other off, says Charles Spencer
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Cats on a Chandelier: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Story
by Michael Coveney
Hutchinson, pounds 17.99, 282 pp
Oh, What a Circus
by Tim Rice
Hodder & Stoughton, 18.99, 456 pp
ACCORDING to a much cherished showbiz anecdote, Andrew Lloyd
Webber once asked the My Fair Lady lyricist Alan Jay Lerner why
people always took such an instant dislike to him. "It saves time
later", was the devastating reply.
I was first regaled with this exchange by a gleefully chuckling
Tim Rice when my tape recorder was safely switched off at the end of
an interview. One of the few disappointments of Michael Coveney's
highly ...
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; Amotz Asa-El Jerusalem Post 09-26-1997 When he chased Napoleon out of Russia, Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov was already 67, and a mere several months away from his death by natural causes. Field Marshal Montgomery still actively commanded...
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