Sooner or Later (Madonna song) beaded fringing and striped sequined embroidery, designed by Jean Paul Gaultier, underneath a long black robe. On his review of the concert, Richard Harrington from "The Washington Post", opined Madonna "acquitted herself quite well on 'Sooner or Later'". Two different performances were taped and released on video, the "Blond Ambition Japan Tour 90", taped in Yokohama, Japan, on April 27, 1990, and the "Blond Ambition World Tour Live", taped in Nice, France, on August 5, 1990. At the 1991 Academy Awards, Madonna appeared with singer Michael Jackson as her date and performed "Sooner or Later". According to journalist Liz Smith,
Herman Taller Herman Taller Herman Taller (5 May 1906, Baia de Aramă - June 1984, Warsaw, Poland) was a Romanian-born American doctor who advocated weight loss based on a low-carbohydrate diet with polyunsaturated fats including safflower oil. He was the author of the controversial best selling book, "Calories Don't Count". The FDA charged that the 1961 book, which cited a specific source of safflower oil capsules in the first printings, existed solely to promote the sales of safflower oil capsules. In 1962, FDA Commissioner George Larrick said: "This bestselling book was deliberately created and used to promote these worthless safflower oil capsules