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...into Guy and Dolls, he was the classic little guy buoyed by an irrepressible belief in himself. With oceans of vim and a tough demeanor, Loesser was known to insult co-writers and directors and blow his top at rehearsals. He once got so mad at the way Isabel Bigley, Guys and Dolls' original Sister Sara, was mangling one of his songs that he socked her. Yet under the Cagney bully-bravado shone a big heart and the impulse to help other young composers. Among Loesser's proteges: Jerry Ross and Richard Adler, who did The Pajama Game and Damn...
DIED. Isabel Bigley, 80, Bronx-born stage and TV actress best known for creating the role of Sarah Brown, the prim missionary who falls in love with gambler Sky Masterson and sings of her passion in the signature tune If I Were a Bell ("If I were a bell, I'd be ringing ... if I were a lamp, I'd light"), in the 1950 Broadway hit Guys and Dolls; in Los Angeles. Undeterred by a rehearsal during which fiery composer Frank Loesser, underwhelmed by her rendition of Bell, slapped her in the face, Bigley won a Tony Award...
...That seems to be the thinking of insurgents in Iraq who have been targeting aid workers for abduction in recent months and who are now believed to be holding Hassan. "Please, please, I beg of you, the British people, to help me ... I don't want to die like Bigley," she said tearfully in a video released Friday, referring to British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was decapitated by his captors earlier this month. Her heartrending plea may not help her abductors' cause with many Iraqis. "To humiliate a woman like this, especially an Arab woman, is unacceptable," says Saad...
...tripped over more bad news and more second guesses, including those from his own team. The military and civilian death toll in Iraq continued to climb, so that the recently optimistic Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi sounded darker about the prospects for stability any time soon. British hostage Kenneth Bigley was beheaded. It emerged that U.S. forces had found floor plans of schools in six American states on a computer disc in Iraq, which launched a round of newscasters interviewing school superintendents from Florida to Oregon about whether a Beslan-style massacre could happen here. Al-Qaeda was thought...
...could argue that the terrorists acted in a godly manner when they killed Bigley. On the contrary, they acted in a way that God would not want them to act. They succumbed to their emotions, and they acted on their prejudices, and the result was that they committed a horrible crime and desecrated the very principles—tawhid and jihad—for which they claimed to be fighting...