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...Musician, composer and conductor Bennett L. Carter...
Carter, commonly known as Benny, is a musician,composer and conductor. Carter, 86, played with avariety of bands in his early career and led hisown band for 13 years. He composed and conductedmusic for many movies, including StormyWeather (1943),Guns of Navarone (1961), andSnows of Kilimanjaro (1952), in which healso appeared...
...Leonard Bernstein? A talented conductor and gifted composer of popular music who overreached when he tried to write "serious" scores? A lecherous bisexual who alienated his wife, confounded his children and appalled his friends with his calculated program of artful dissipation? Classical music's shining American champion, familiar to millions from his television proselytizing? By the time the reader finishes slogging through Humphrey Burton's exhaustively researched but strangely noncommittal biography, Leonard Bernstein (Doubleday; 594 pages; $25), he still hasn't got a clue...
...less distressingly, truly spectacular actors appear in farcical and overdone bit parts, Whoppi Goldberg fulfils the rather insignificant role of Jake's mother's quirky side-kick, as well as popping up successively as a hard-hat construction worker, a marching band conductor on an interstate, and the mask of comedy in the stone-work of an off-Broadway theater. Kathleen Turner appears as a over-sexed soap-opera star who, in spite of her potentially exciting role as temptress, never makes her presence felt. Timothy Dalton is, however, somewhat elegant in his suave portrayal of the wheeler-dealer gallery...
...family of underachievers, the Simpsons have achieved quite a bit. In the show, Homer has been a monorail conductor and a baseball mascot; he won a Grammy (for Outstanding Soul, Spoken Word or Barbershop Album) and survived eating a deadly blowfish. Marge sang Blanche Dubois in the musical O Streetcar! Lisa created her own talking doll, mastered the saxophone and the Talmud, was a Junior Miss Springfield, uncovered political corruption and saved the Republic. Bart adopted an elephant, fell down a well and was rescued by Sting, and was tried for murdering Principal Skinner. Maggie had her first word voiced...