Word: binge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only now and then does he get a laughable line ("Are you a moron?" "No, I am a Catholic."). Only one, when Bing Crosby mistakes him for a fan and casually autographs the tortilla that he is holding, does the unimpressionable Cantinflas get a line that is unforgettable. He looks amazed at the tortilla, stares indignantly at Crosby, then inquires: "Why you poot eenk on my lonch...
...brought up to believe that it is polite to wait until you are asked," Soprano Eileen Farrell invariably replied when people wondered why she had never sung at the Met. The Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing continued to ignore Farrell, either because of misplaced gallantry over her heft (5 ft. 5½ in., 180 Ibs.) or because of her limited operatic repertory. But the snub did not hinder the progress of Farrell's career or silence the critics, who acclaimed her the U.S.'s top soprano. Finally, a year ago, Bing and the Met beckoned, and last...
...Kirsten, Leonie Rysanek, Zinka Milanov sang arias from L'Africaine, Louise, Tannhäuser, Bohème, supported by the Met orchestra, chorus and ballet, while Mrs. Belmont, 80, sat in the center box, as firmly as ever part of the Met scene. During intermission. General Manager Rudolf Bing presented to Mrs. Belmont a silver tray with the engraved signatures of the board members and guild staff...
High Time. An amiable spoof of the old-fashioned campus musicals brings Old Groaner Bing Crosby back to college to fill the gap in his career as a tycoon. Along the way, Bing also gets a refresher course in romance. No harm done...
...Bing's undergraduate experience is presented in four acts, each describing one of the four years of college. The first three years rush along, like a well-executed locomotive yell, at a relentlessly accelerating rate of rah-rah and haha, and if the last year somehow loses momentum, it does not much matter-the audience needs a rest by that time anyway. Bing gives it the old college try, and if he cannot sing so well as he used to or act any better than he ever did, that does not much matter either. A younger generation-represented mainly...