Show The Salt Lake Tribune Friday January 1988 1 M9 Fast away old year passes hail new year lads and lasses By Charles C'hamplin Los Angeles Times Writer HOLLYWOOD — If there were a grand climatic design New Year's Eve day would be dank dark and gray thus creating a fittingly funereal mood in which to observe the passing of the late year New Year's Day would on the other hand dawn crystal-clea- r and sparkling atingle with the promise of 365 days in which to commit a whole new set of triumphs and follies The death of an old year is not (pule like the loss of a friend or a rain-washe- d lined one I cannot ever remember feeling pangs of regret when a year considered as a whole slid into the pages of history There are a few I would not mind having back all in all It seems to me par-ncul- that 1950 1956 1962 to '65 and 1976 were particularly choice but 1 would feel spectacularly foolish standing about in 1950 wondering why every-onelse looked so young So let it pass 1 am not sure how you assess a year although journalists keep trying totting up lists of the 10 bests 10 worsts 25 largests 50 dumbests 100 least forgettables The lists that hurt most this year are the necrologies It is hard to recall a year in which so many enduring figures in American popular culture became only memories And you bare the head in tribute to John e Fred Astaire Huston Rita Hayworth Jackie Gleason Roberi Preston Ray Bolger and Danny Kaye Geraldine Page and Mary As- - 'Chorus Line’ lyricist dies NEW YORK (UPI) — Award-winnin- g composer Edward Kleban who wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical "A Chorus Line" has died of cancer He was 48 Kleban who won a Tony Award in 1976 for best lyrics also shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama that year with his collaborators on the hit musical including Michael Bennett and Marvin Hamlisch His lawyer Allen Stein said Kleban died of complications from mouth cancer Monday at St Vincent’s Hospital Born in the Bronx on April 30 1939 Kleban produced records for long-runnin- g FISK a on a fool's paradise of speculation sharp trading and spendthrift fiscal that would have had any of goings-oCharles Dickens' creations in debtor’s prison faster than you could say “Egad sir” But aside from larger considerations of hair's-breadtescapes and s the averages as an instrument of poetic justice there are the private contemplations of 1987 and indeed of 1988 But the year is going going gone and if you are lucky it takes with it all the guilts attendant upon what did not get done that should have and what was done that might better have been let alone The blackboard is washed clean and the erasers are clapped free of chalk dust ready to receive a whole new 1988 set of guilts Yet possibly not so Hope never seems to spring quite so eternal as on n h Dow-Jone- 1 have long I would rather receive realized since the day rested and refreshed instead of dazed with fatigue and excess stomach acidity The New Year's Eve frolics wore out their welcome with me some while ago and it may be a trend A few years ago a reporter friend was researching a story on New trends One Year’s Eve party-givinof the story sources turned out to be a film personage who said that he and his wife used to give quite an elaborate party New Year's morning They and some of their friends were also weekend nudists When the midnight kisses had been exchanged and "Auld Lang Syne" guests properly sung the would depart The nudists would stay behind and disrobe in celebration of their beliefs But they had stopped giving their party the film personage said “It was always the same old faces " On which newborn note I wish everyone a clear day and the full promise of the new year non-nudi- g SUNDAY THRU THURSDAY 6 CHINESE DINNER FOR 2 Soup 8eef Mushroom CHIPS Chow Yuk Paper Wrapped Chicken Sweet & Sour Pork Tenderloin Ham Fried Rice Tea or Collee JANUARY Fortune 650 modern and luxurious rooms low prices friendly people plus a FREE valuable WELCOME BOOK all in the heart of downtown La- - v'egas located right on Fremon Street 3-1- 4 BEST ROOM VALUE IN DOWNTOWN US VEGAS tSB0iS3EDP CALL TODAY They're filling fast! 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Superb Service1 Superb Atmosphere1 I'H st Columbia Records in Los Angeles for such artists as Igor Stravinsky Andre Previn and Percy Faith in the 1960s before returning to New York near the end of the decade In 1974 working with Hamlisch he created the songs for “A Chorus Line’’ which became a smash hit and has been running for more than 12 years He also collaborated with Hamlisch on the movie version of the stage musical and wrote two new songs Kleban is survived by his father Julian Kleban of New York City and a sister Toby Levine of Potomac Md ntAVElTO CHINA A tor to take no more than a melancholy sampling The year like any other will have its public assessments and 1987 will surely go down as the year of glas-noIts most encouraging image may have been the doomsday clock on the cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Over the years the editors have pushed the hands ever closer to fatal midnight as the Cold War hotted up New in glas-notime the editors have pushed the clock back by not one but several minutes giving the world a kind of grace period to park undisturbed a little longer The Black Monday stock market swoop is doubtlessly the other semipermanent memento of 1987 But with due commiseration for the innocent bystanders who got caught in the undertow it is hard not to feel simply that the mortgage came due If-- OPEN 7 DAYS Banquet facilities for up to 60 people Reservations Encouraged 3698 East 7000 South 943-819- 9 Pants Skirts Blouses Sweaters and Jackets Shop our Annual Clearance Sale We will take $400 off our regular prices on our entire stock of Pykettes brand fall and holiday pants blouses skirts sweaters and jackets at the register Misses and Womens sizes (Sale does not include our new spring group Denim Group or our basic group in black brown and navy) NEWUSED CARS & TRUCKS SAVINGS SPECTACULAR & See the Values listed in Section ‘G’ of Junior Tops Men’s Sweaters Choose from a variety of styles in knits and wovens Our regular price from $1 to $22 Long sleeve pullovers m an assortment of colors solids and acquards Our regular price $15 to $33 9” to 14“ 11“io24” 1 Today’s Newspaper Illustrations are only a representation ol me many styles I FOUND THE CAT WANTED I AND DIDN'T EVEN LEAVE HOME'' GET RESULTS WITH CLASSIFIED N 1 WANT-AD- S 007 “ OnflH jlUUU Salt Lake City Midvalley The Family Center 1760 South state 5690 South Redwood Road 467-514- 1 968-771- m sloth 10 am to b pm 10 am to 7 pm -- — Sale limited lo sloth u" hand Monday through Saturday Closed Sunday Monday through Friday to am to 6 Closed Sunday -- Ok ) tr A J |