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...riot of screaming neurotics. Particularly funny among the crowds of people who come on stage are David Margolin and Bonnie Freid as the Fates, Bob and Wendy; the chorus of Rich Buck and Andy Pugh, and Tom Saunders as Lorenzo Miller, who, in a wonderful game-show-host croon, tells the audience that they are only characters in his play. "Not only is he fictional," he says of one man, "he's homosexual." Even characters who speak only a few lines play their parts with heart and help produce a show that is about as lightheartedly entertaining as theater...
...pick guitars and drive them old trucks, let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such." Waylon and Willie can certainly croon that tune and Larry Mayhan--several-time winner of the North American "All Around Cowboy" competition--sang it last season with his touring rodeo cowboy band. Last June in Casper, Wyoming, Mayhan came riding out into the rodeo arena on the back of a bucking bronc, dismounted, jumped up onto a stage full of guitar-picking cowboys and broke into song: "Cowboys arn't easy to love and they're harder to hold. He'd rather give...
...Sergeant Pepper's," Burns plays Mr. Kite, keeper of the band's instruments and mayor of the town, Irving Fein, Burn's agent, said yesterday. Lead Peter Frampton will serenade him in "The Benefit of Mr. Kite," and Burns himself will croon supreme in "Fixing a Hole...
Crosby's biggest critical success was Country Girl, but his personal favorite among his movies was High Society (1956). It found him singing and dancing with Frank Sinatra at an "elegant swellegant" party and playing a concertina and crooning True Love, as only the first crooner could croon, to not-yet-royal Grace Kelly. Unlike many stars, Crosby surrounded himself with other big talents. He worked with Fred Astaire in Holiday Inn (in which he sang White Christmas), with Ethel Barrymore in Just for You and with Ingrid Bergman in Bells of St. Mary...
Abruptly, Abzug changes tempo, modulates to a reassuring croon. "That's why you're going to elect me mayor." There is electricity in the synagogue sanctuary now, and Abzug delights in every watt. "I may break my neck in the process, but I'm going to do it!" Somewhere in the back, a middle-aged housewife shouts: "Right...