Word: debutants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." As a Soviet sailor whose sub runs aground on an island off the New England coast, Broadway's Alan Arkin (Luv) makes light of cold war jitters in a rib-cracking feature film debut...
...chiefly to Zvi Haftel, 54, concertmaster and chief wheedler-needier. Haftel was among the original 72 musicians, including 20 concertmasters and first-desk players, recruited in 1935 from the best European ensembles by Violinist Bronislaw Huberman, founder of the orchestra. Toscanini, as a snub to Hitler, conducted the debut performance of the refugee orchestra in 1936. But the orchestra foundered under Huberman until 1946, when Haftel, leading a musicians' mutiny, took over...
...door and announces, with a hammer-and-sickly grin: "We're Norwheeguns." Actually the nervous Norsemen are petrified Soviet sailors whose sub has run aground on a sand bar. Their spokesman is Alan Arkin, a cabaret satirist (Second City) and Broadway clown (Luv), making a major movie debut that probably deserves an Oscar, a Lenin Peace Prize, and any other encouragements a wicked old world can offer...
Blindfold marks the Hollywood debut of Claudia Cardinale, who must regret the expensive miracles of mismanagement worked in her behalf. Though still identifiable by her accent and by moviedom's quickest smile, CeeCee is lacquered with a standard starlet finish that makes her beauty appear sprayed on. Rock Hudson, meanwhile, plays his own 50th movie role as if to refute the hypothesis that experience is the best teacher...
Opera HANDEL: SERSE (Westminster; 3 LPs). One of the greatest boons of the expanding recorded repertoire was the debut last year on vinyl of Handel's Rodelinda; now comes his tragicomic opera Serse, or Xerxes, which begins with the famous aria Ombra mai fu, generally called Handel's Largo, a song of praise to a plane tree. The deep, dark, mellifluous voice of Alto Maureen Forrester as the Persian king is set off by the light, bright vocal acrobatics of Lucia Popp, a rising young Czech soprano. Brian Priestman is the conductor, using the Vienna Radio Orchestra...