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...Giddins works overtime to give Bing his props and chops. He sees the Crosby style as an extension and domestication of Armstrong's pioneering, growling scatmanship. He notes that in 1927 Bing haunted the Chicago boîtes where Satch was wowing the hip world with his innovations as a trumpeter and vocalist; and that the Rhythm Boys often interpolated scat, as comic relief, in their tunes...
...bobbing without causing any abuse to the ear. Tomoyuki shows jazz influences in his tracks “God Save the Mona Lisa” and “I’m Still a Simple Man,” on which he received help from respective legendary vocalists Bo Dorough (of School House Rock fame) and Hirth Martinez...
...Celebrities already lined up include an eclectic mix ranging from Jeff Bridges, Rob Reiner, Halle Berry and Jennifer Jason Leigh to Jon Voight, Priscilla Presley, Forrest Whitaker, Martin Landau and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Throw in such disparate names as pop group Hanson and George W. Bush's ambassador in Hollywood, Bo Derek, and you have an eclectic mix of celebrities to turn most heads. And with all those people to network with, that's why very few people in Hollywood will remember who won the Oscars by Monday morning...
...Supreme Court Justices Scalia & Thomas b) ODB & DMX c) Lincoln & Ben Franklin d) Bo Derek & Raquel Welch...
Streisand skipped town this time; in fact, Hollywood stayed home, unless you count the faithful Bo Derek. There was less Fleetwood Mac, more Lee Greenwood. At the opening festivities on Thursday at the Lincoln Memorial, a lifelike Wayne Newton quoted Martin Luther King and sang Neil Diamond: "They're coming to America." The theme was inclusion: John Ashcroft was there, fresh from a bitter confirmation hearing in which opponents cast him as a racist character assassin; he greeted Colin Powell, who had sailed through his own hearing, and as singer Kim Weston began the black national anthem, Lift Every Voice...