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...twilight of her career, when her voice began to atrophy, Behrens showed why she was a stalwart of the stage for four decades. Asked why she continued to perform, her response was simple: "I love singing too much...
Behrens, who died Aug. 18 at 72, began her career later than most. After abandoning a background in law to pursue music, she made her professional debut in 1971, with just four years of vocal training and without a single acting class under her belt; her first director had advised her against taking drama lessons, correctly predicting that her raw instincts onstage would become one of her greatest strengths...
...favor of an easy set-up by finding freshman Emma Keller in the middle of the circle. Keller did not waste the opportunity, firing a low shot past Casey on the right side for her first collegiate goal. Sophomore Allie Kimmel followed five minutes later with her first career goal on an assist from classmate Dickson, demonstrating how much the Crimson will rely on its less-experienced athletes this season. “We have a very young team this year and it’s awesome that they opened the season with a contribution,” Bannon said...
Capitalism: A Love Story does not quite measure up to Moore's Sicko in its cumulative power, and it is unlikely to equal Fahrenheit 9/11 in political impact. In many ways, though, this is Moore's magnum opus: the grandest statement of his career-long belief that big business is screwing the hard-working little guy while government connives in the atrocity. As he loudly tried to confront General Motors CEO Roger Smith in Roger & Me in 1989, and pleaded through a bull horn to get officials at Guantanamo to give medical treatment to surviving victims of 9/11...
Pollak, who graduated from Harvard Law School this past year, decided Tuesday that he would be challenging Jan Schakowsky to represent the 9th district of Illinois. In an interview with FlyBy yesterday, Pollak said he had been considering politics as a career option even before the altercation, but the responses he received afterward inflamed a sense of urgency...