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Fuerzeig ended the program with a very jazzy taste of Gershwin, in honor of what would have been the composer's 89th birthday this week. These short selections, the 'Preludes for Piano' and 'I Got Rhythm', were played with the same technical confidence and attention to detail which marked the entire program...
Slow dissolve. Cosby has just celebrated a notable birthday, prompting new thoughts -- and a new medium -- for America's most famous father. "I recently turned fifty," he writes at the outset of his book Time Flies, "which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, 'Dad I just can't run the quarter with you anymore unless I bring something to read...
...Cosby Show is a runaway No. 1 hit. The comedian' s first book, Fatherhood, set sales records. A second, Time Flies, has just been published, marking his 50th birthday. With commercials, concerts, movies and more, his fortunes keep soaring, and he remains firmly in control. Offstage and on, Bill Cosby gets laughs -- and results -- by doing things his way. See SHOW BUSINESS...
...theater, with enough ( ideological conflicts, impassioned players and historic resonance to make it a worthy sequel to this summer's Iran-contra civics lesson. But the hearings into the nomination of Robert Bork as the nation's 104th Supreme Court Justice offer something more. At issue on the 200th birthday of the Constitution will be the most fundamental questions at the heart of that document and in the soul of the nation it constituted: What inalienable rights -- ranging from free speech to equal justice to personal privacy -- are guaranteed to citizens by the highest law of the land? Because Bork...
What if George Gershwin had lived longer? He saw his first hit song, Swanee, sell more than a million copies, wrote for Broadway and symphony orchestras and performed Rhapsody in Blue to the applause of Rachmaninoff and Stokowski, all before his 30th birthday. He was planning further classical compositions when he died of a brain tumor at the age of 38 in 1937. Would Gershwin's later music have made its way into the standard American repertory along with the works of Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber? Or would he have been considered an overreacher whose notes never quite shook...