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...earlier, made Berlin a songwriting star. On its first release, four versions of the tune charted at #1, #2, #3 and #4. Bessie Smith, in 1927, and Louis Armstrong, in 1937, made the top 20 with their interpretations. In 1938 the song was #1 again, in a duet by Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell; another Crosby duet, this time with Al Jolson, hit the top-20 in 1947. Johnny Mercer charted a swing version in 1945, and Nellie Lutcher put it on the R&B charts (#13) in 1948. Add Ray Charles' brilliant big-band take in 1959, and "Alexander...
...Call Me Madam"). It was the biggest hit of his first Broadway score, "Watch Your Step," and spawned hit versions that reached #4 and #8. In 1950 the song did a Lazarus, or would have if he?d been a barbershop quartet. This time there were four hits, including Bing and Gary Crosby's #2, in 1950 - 36 years later...
...ELIZABETH HURLEY the new Diana--lovely, spurned and not averse to tipping off the tabloids? Hurley, currently four months along in that family way, says Hollywood producer and multimillionaire Stephen Bing is the father. But Bing, "a spermicidal maniac," according to those hyper British tabs, is not so sure. "Ms. Hurley and I were not in an exclusive relationship when she became pregnant," he said in a statement issued to newspapers. "It was her choice to be a single mother." Bing--dubbed Bing Laden by Hurley pals--added gallantly, "If indeed I am the father, I will be an extremely...
...Christmas Jazz Christmas purists, look away now. For most, the holiday season brings to mind images of white snow outside, green trees inside and Yuletide carols being sung by a choir around a battered upright piano. For the majority, carols sung by the Vienna Boys Choir are just peachy, Bing Crosby pushes the envelope, and jazz should stay where it belongs—at the Village Vanguard. For the dissenting minority, holiday songs have long been beaten into unholy submission by endless bland repetition, and jazz giants provide a perfect remedy by taking tradition and swinging it mightily...
...each character prior to the action. Instead, he lingers only for an aperitif with the two main players, who happen to be locked in a rocky marriage: air hostess Qiu Yehua (Xu Fan), on her last flight after 10 years of service, and her pilot husband Li (Shao Bing), so smooth he looks like he has taken time off from his day job as James Bond. Both board the same Shanghai to Beijing flight. With that established in a couple of gulps, Zhang sets his camera firmly on the ground. In one kitsch-glorious shot (there are many...