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...between the artist's authenticity and the demands of his audience. This often led to regrettable consequences, like the Guy Lombardo schmaltz familiar to frequent viewers of PBS fundraisers and other lost souls. But remarkable, and remarkably lucrative, artistic freedom remained for those who were faithful to the omnipotent dah, dah da-dah...
Skippidy-do-dah...
...lost his cocker spaniel" when Albert went off to the big swamp in the sky. He has one brother who is a cop and another who is a priest. ("I don't know where they went wrong," he says.) A self-professed martial-arts expert (who pronounces karate kah-dah-tay), he once escaped from prison by carving a bar of soap into "the most perfect-looking pistol you've ever seen," and he is described by the FBI as a master of disguises. He once proclaimed, in his faintly Continental intonation, "The thing about art theft is the Robin...
...flying overhead, clowns on stilts, popcorn vendors, jugglers and puppeteers, the event lived up to the town's name, which was chosen to put future residents in a positive frame of mind from the outset. The streets have been named already, mostly for trees, but Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Drive and Hip-Hip-Hooray Highway would be fine choices for the larger arteries...
...Boston Pops treatment suits the Disney catalog, which boasts six Oscar winners, from When You Wish upon a Star (Pinocchio) through Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah (Song of the South) to A Whole New World (Aladdin). The costumes are meticulous, right down to the tiny red bow on Minnie Mouse's knickers. The oversize character heads bring coos of recognition from the littlest audience members. And the numbers are neatly sung and danced...