Word: angelized
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Meantime, Charlap is planning his next songbook exploration, an all-Gershwin album with his trio plus four horn players. And he has just finished a CD for Angel Records on which he forms a duo with, yes, his mother. (It's a family affair, since it includes two songs composed by his father.) Charlap, who plays occasional cabaret gigs with his mother, credits her as a major musical influence, particularly on his phrasing: "I find myself hearing her voice in my head. After all, I've been listening to her ever since I can remember...
...about his father, who died of cancer last December. "His last words to me were, 'Have they signed [pitcher Curt] Schilling?'" Kirk remembers. "I promised him that if he pulled through, I'd take him to see this. I wanted to be here for him. I feel a little angel over...
...first year in Japan, the open, young American met, by chance, both Yasunari Kawabata, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great Zen scholar, D.T. Suzuki; and a little afterward he found himself on a set where Akira Kurosawa was directing Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel. Very soon, every foreigner who landed in Tokyo?Somerset Maugham, Tom Wolfe, Richard Avedon, Philip Johnson?was calling on him to be shown around. Richie's shrewd, but forgiving, fascination with human quirks there gives us Truman Capote buying an "imitation geisha wig" and Kurosawa taking in a Fellini film without...
...failure, but rather because of it. The hype was justified, the music was that good, and yet it crashed and burned and it’s all very tragic and still wonderful. In Sept. 1966, Brian Wilson, with Parks, began in earnest to work on the concept of Dumb Angel, which they soon renamed Smile. They churned out “Heroes and Villains,” a tribute to the Old West intended to be a single; “Wonderful,” a gentle harpsichord piece with a gorgeous, intricate melody; and “Surf?...