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...Internet Movie Database identifies Herb Jeffries as being of "Ethiopian-French Canadian-Italian & Irish descent," and notes that one of his five wives was the stripper Tempest Storm. Jeffries was a mellow baritone; he had sung with Cab Calloway. On screen, as Herbert Jeffrey, he became the smoothest cowboy west of Sugar Hill in four sagebrush sing-a-longs made in the late 30s at a black-owned California ranch. As Bogle observes, Jeffries and his light-skinned leading ladies were the "whites" in these films; the supporting roles were taken by dark-skinned comics like Mantan Moreland...
...What a moment it had been, in which the President of the United States briefly turned into Cab Calloway, and House Majority Leader Dick Armey was caught on camera with his eyes welling up at the sheer...
...time, the 59-year-old retiree is instead heading to Yogaville, Va., for a two-day silent retreat. "This year had to be different," Rittmaster says. "It was either this or be in the ocean for a swim at midnight." Meanwhile, at midnight, south of downtown Los Angeles, LaRonda Calloway, 45, of Culver City, Calif., will attend a "watch service" at New Commandment Missionary Baptist Church--safely indoors in a city where partyers are known to fire guns in the air to start the year. "You're there to thank the Lord for bringing you through the old year...
...films have the audacity of the talkies' youth: you'll hear "hell" and "damn" in the 1929 Makers of Melody, see Calloway make love to a married woman, and get away with it, in Hi-De-Ho (1933). The films also showcase future stars, like Rogers, perky and alluring from the start, and Cary Grant, who made his movie debut in Chang's Singapore Sue. Some stars Hollywood couldn't figure out. Merman, setting a torch to After You're Gone in Be Like Me, is tough, sexy, charismatic--a singing Stanwyck. But film musical heroines were soft creatures...
Gordon and Merman, Calloway and Rogers display an effervescence that bubbles through the decades and chases away our premillennial ennui. They embody the spirit of the Hollywood musical at its primitive best: Have fun; give...