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...Cole or as exuberant a geometrician as Art Tatum, both non-beboppers. But he could find a secret, personal vibrancy on a standard like Jerome Kern's Yesterdays, or combine a dark heart with a soaring spirit in such tunes of his own as Crossin' the Channel and Cleopatra's Dream. And he could make Tea for Two, for God's sake, sound like an entire banquet, with the Mad Hatter himself doing the pouring...
...about love and power and eight men dressed as women," said John Berman '95, whose musical-comedy drag version of Antony and Cleopatra has been chosen as the script for the 146th annual Hasty Pudding production...
...bankable. "It's been a long time," says Columbia Pictures chairman Mark Canton, "since women have had any reliable impact on big box office." Decades, to be exact. In the '60s women were the top-billed stars in eight of the yearly box-office champs: West Side Story, Cleopatra, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Hawaii, The Graduate, Funny Girl and Love Story. But since 1970 only one top-grossing film (E.T., an anomaly) has had an actress's name...
...world view of most of our ancestors who came from West Africa, one should delve into it. I think what [Gates is] insisting on is that devoting a curriculum to the investigation of African culture is hard work and takes many years and is more important than a Cleopatra t-shirt (I never understood why people accepted Cleopatra, you know, she was a collaborator...
...Chicago Tribune before entering the world of film. He won an Oscar for best director and best screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and won both those awards again for All About Eve (1950). He also directed one of the biggest film flops of all time: Cleopatra (1963, starring Elizabeth Taylor). But his cinematic successes were legion, and legendary: The Philadelphia Story (James Stewart), No Way Out (Sidney Poitier), Guys and Dolls (Marlon Brando), Suddenly Last Summer (Montgomery Clift), Woman of the Year (Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy) and more...