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...Follow the driveway to the rear of his otherwise ordinary house, and the mountains form a natural amphitheater around what is pure show business. As a sign hanging by the door of an enormous shed reads: GNOME FARM, SOUND HORN FOR SERVICE. Spilling out from the shed is a chorus of concrete creatures which Myers makes, repairs and sells to the public. He characterizes the latter as "licorice all-sorts-anyone who doesn't understand what the sign is. Locals, interstaters, people from overseas. Just never-ending." So is his merchandise. There are ponies, toadstools, eagles, penguins and pink flamingos...
...both Broadway and the movies - not that either medium took much notice. From 1937 to 1939 she appeared in nine two-reel musicals, made in New York for 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. And she hoofed in the chorus of shows with scores by some pretty sharp tunesmiths: Harold Rome (Sing Out the News), Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein (Very Warm for May ), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (Higher and Higher) and Cole Porter (Panama Hattie). In three of those shows she shared stage space with Vera Ellen, who would join Allyson in MGM musicals; in another she played...
...fill in a few times. The show's director, George Abbott, was pleased, and gave Allyson a lead role in his next musical, Best Foot Forward. When MGM did the movie version, Allyson went west, and stayed there. So did Stanley Donen, who would soon graduate from chorus boy to choreographer and director, and Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, whom the studio signed to write the score for Meet Me in St. Louis, starring the MGM princess Judy Garland. The diva and the ingenue would become lifelong friends...
...Eraser is full of Radiohead music--dark, dystopian, oddly beautiful--minus the other members of Radiohead. (It was composed mostly on a laptop.) In spots, the band is missed. The Clock creates some grinding tension but never figures out how to release it, while Black Swan eddies around a chorus ("This is f___ed up, f___ed up") that hardly mines new emotional territory. You can sense Yorke's grasping for something, and with the help of producer Nigel Godrich, who oversaw Beck's midcareer-crisis record, Sea Change, he eventually finds it: clarity...
...semifinal between France and a Portuguese team accused of unfair tactics voted the French worthy winners on "moral terms." In the same game, the Portuguese player Cristiano Ronaldo, who was thought to have contributed to English striker Wayne Rooney's quarterfinal sending off, walked onto the pitch to a chorus of jeers. The air of moral seriousness that still underpins 21st century sports shouldn't surprise anybody with an eye for historical continuity. The administrative codes by which most mass-spectator sports are governed were generally assembled in the late 19th century. Consequently they come drenched in what used...