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...exception of the buoyant "Love Me Tonight" and the ambitious misfire "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum," they spent another five, largely frustrating years.) This time, the songwriters play themselves; and though it may be due to our boys' limited acting skills, there seems an undertaste of distaste that Dick shows Larry. Hart is humiliated in the script, in Rodgers' withering comments and, for one scene, in the couture: he wears a plaid suit, collar buttoned up, that looks like a kid's pajamas. Hart is the bad wittle boy, Rodgers' the annoyed adult. If these self-portraits...
...Hart couldn't match his partner's belt-notches; Dick didn't care about that. But like the demanding city editor on a daily tabloid, he did want Larry to deliver copy. Many people who knew Rodgers said he had the soul of a banker. He went to work, wrote a gorgeous, chromatically sophisticated tune, went home (or to an upper room in Sardi's). He was the fastest composer in the East; as Noel Coward said, mixing envy and awe, "The man positively pees melody." Speed was essential in the mid-20s, when Dick and Larry finally got cooking...
...playing 20 years from now." On the 1998 PBS special "The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty," Hart's sister-in-law Dorothy had a different story: "He went to see the opening night, and he didn't like it. But he wouldn't tell Dick he didn't like...
...House argues just the opposite. One official even used the inevitable "Nixon goes to China" analogy, arguing that executives will be certain to heed the guidance of one of their own. But Bush isn't likely to throw the whole book at corporate executives or board members. Vice President Dick Cheney and economic adviser Larry Lindsey have argued that regulatory over-reaction will put a chilling effect on entrepreneurial activity and keep good people from serving on corporate boards. "We've been dancing on the head of a pin here for two weeks trying to find balance because this...
...Jack Welch had an enormously successful career at GE, built basically on execution. We mention Dick Brown of EDS. The Colgate-Palmolive people have done a wonderful job over the last number of years. Johnson & Johnson under Ralph Larsen has had a long history of being able to execute...