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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Okie from Muskogee would rather die than appear in anything unAmerican. No sweat. Huckleberry Finn contains just the role for Merle Haggard. On March 25, over ABC, he will make his dramatic debut in a TV movie of Mark Twain's classic. He will play Duke, the sweet-talking con man. His country music fans may be disappointed. "I wouldn't want to mix singin' in with the actin'," explains Merle. "That way, if I mess up, I can at least salvage something for my career...
...when Nilsson, playing a mortal, sings at top volume, what does the superhuman Brunnhilde do? Last week the unlucky lady was Berit Lindholm, a well-known Brunnhilde in Europe making her Met debut. She turned out to be a slim, handsome woman with a thrilling mezzo register, but this did not help her with much of Brunnhilde's important music. Vickers sang Siegmund with wrenching intensity, which worked fine with Nilsson. But in the searing confrontation with Brunnhilde he was dramatically undermatched...
...play goalie from the start. "I stopped the first shot and that settled it," he recalls. "The challenge to make a save was always there. It was just in me." The son of a factory foreman, Parent did not start skating until he was 11, and then his debut in the goal was not promising: he missed 21 shots. Nevertheless, Parent was hooked. "For Bernard, hockey is an obsession," says his older brother Yvan, a Montreal psychologist. "All he ever wanted to do was to be a professional hockey player. He didn't study, he didn...
Phoebe Snow (Shelter). "Sometimes these hands get so clumsy that I drop things and people laugh. Sometimes these hands seem so graceful I can see them signin' autographs." Reality and fantasy blend nicely in this graceful, never clumsy debut album. Phoebe's original lyrics are as plain as morning bread, but her alto voice is jazzy. Jazz Notables Teddy Wil son (piano) and Zoot Sims (saxophone) join the diversified goings...
Last week in Philadelphia, the Panovs presented their visiting card to the Western Hemisphere. Dance buffs looked forward to the couple's debut with foreboding as well as anticipation. Two years' enforced idleness could have seriously impaired 25-year-old Galina's abilities. For Valery, 36, it might have meant physical deterioration. The big question was: Can the Panovs still dance well? The answer was a resounding...