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...reasons that Mob stories resonate with us civilians are well rehearsed: loyalty, honor, family, bada-bing, bada-boom. Their audience--especially men--uses them as a source of secondhand machismo and Machiavellian sooth. What's curious, and a little pathetic, is that the same elements appeal to mobsters. But the movies became an attractive model for them only when real Mob life was on the skids, attacked from without by the feds, eaten from within by rats. The Godfather I and II were nostalgia movies, harking back to the glory years of a racket whose best years were behind...
...There is also Astaire the singer; that takes some getting used to. His voice was thin, reedy, not quite suited for the high notes or large gestures of the standard tenor. But that was his genius: even before Bing Crosby, Astaire democratized singing. "Almost every great male icon of the art - Crosby, Sinatra, Torm?, Bennett - takes from Astaire," writes Steve Schwartz on Classical Net. "The male pop singer B.F. (before Fred) sounded something like an Irish tenor. ... The limitations of Astaire's voice forced him to find another way - deceptively casual, never oversold, and at home with the American vernacular...
...problems plaguing Hollywood producer STEVE BING, lack of virility is not one. Actress ELIZABETH HURLEY says Bing is the father of her newborn son, a claim he is fighting in court. Now he is also being cited as the father of Kira Kerkorian. Until recently, Kira, 4, the daughter of Bing's ex-girlfriend Lisa Bonder, was believed to have been sired by Bonder's former husband, billionaire movie-studio mogul Kirk Kerkorian. In January Bonder, 37, petitioned Kerkorian, 84, for $320,000 a month in child support. His lawyers say he is sterile and could not possibly...
...comedy a young man's game, like skateboarding or sex? Writing jokes, creating droll characters--these take ambition, ingenuity and energy, and after decades of devotion to this voracious muse, a fellow can get pooped. He still knows the rhythms (ba-da-dum or ba-da-bing) but has run out of witty variations. He's vamping, working from the Catskills version of muscle memory. His obsession is just a job; he's confecting comedy not from inspiration but from habit...
BORN. To ELIZABETH HURLEY, 36, actress and single mom; a boy, Damian Charles; in London. The co-star of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and former girlfriend of Hugh Grant has named former boyfriend Stephen Bing, a film producer, as the father. Bing has questioned that claim, saying the two "were not in an exclusive relationship" when Hurley became pregnant...