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Green, who calls himself "a born showman," an "unconscionable show-off" and "charming," is visiting Harvard this week as part of the Learning From Performers series. Although he is best known for his work in musical film. Green spoke on the difficulties of writing music for dramatic film...
...father was born to a radical heritage and not expected to stray. After writing several appreciative pieces about avant-garde writers, he took command of Commentary in 1960 and steered it leftward...
Though he was born in Brooklyn, the city of Perelman's childhood and youth was Providence. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. At Brown University one of his best friends was Nathanael West, the future author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, and a future brother...
DIED. Clarence Muse, 89, black character actor, playwright, director and songwriter (When It's Sleepy Time Down South); of a stroke; in Ferris, Calif. A law school graduate, the Baltimore-born Muse abandoned his legal ambitions early on to become a vaudeville singer. "The public believed in the Negro's voice," he later explained, "but not tin his] intelligence." He made the first of his more than 200 screen appearances in Hearts in Dixie (1929), the first all-black musical, played Jim in Huckleberry Finn two years later and had his last role in the newly released...
...Born in Poland, Singer emigrated to the United States in 1935 and now lives in Florida. The 1978 Nobel Laureate has written more than a dozen books in his native Yiddish and subsequently translated them into English...