Word: crooner
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...themes in this quintet of first-person narratives are those of failure and unfulfillment - of lives having to settle for second best. "Crooner" is narrated by Janeck, who plays guitar in Venice's tourist cafés. He spots Tony Gardner, a schmaltzy crooner whose heyday is well behind him, and gets roped into accompanying the singer while he serenades his wife, Lindy, from a gondola. What begins for Janeck as an unprecedented honor, in being party to a famous man's romantic outpouring, modulates to the realization that the gesture is despairing and valedictory. Lindy, now divorced from Gardner...
...bearded crooner favored lyrics that—how shall we say it—evoked images of another world, perhaps one where the sober weight of existentialism meets the dainty lift of nonsensical observations...
...coincidence, the show’s producers happened to have a track of the very backup song the boy wanted to sing, “Who’s Loving You” by the Jackson 5, already cued. While the other judges reacted to the preternaturally talented young crooner by dropping their jaws and slapping their cheeks, Cowell simply sat back in his chair and grinned. Everything had gone as planned. This season, “Britain’s Got Talent” has two wildly popular contestants on its hands—both of whom, paradoxically...
...Chris Brown can Kiss Kiss his career bye bye. Forever. Sad part about it...FlyBy would've been stoked had the Commencement Speaker been this hip-hop crooner pre-domestic violence...
...This is not the first time a member of a minority group will represent Israel at Eurovision. In 1998 Dana International won the competition with her song "Diva," becoming the first transsexual to take first place. Soul crooner Eddie Butler - a member of Israel's Black Hebrews - sang for his country in Athens in 2006, providing some priceless mass-media exposure for his tiny, little-known sect. (See pictures of Eurovision's most memorable moments...