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...Clarice Taylor), is both possessive and plaintive, one of those women who suck up so much of the oxygen in a room that no one else can breathe. Her thirtyish daughter Alberta (Frances Foster) is all nerves-lonely, desperate and starved for a man's caressing hands. Uncle Doc (Adolph Caesar) is an alcoholic numbers player...
...pressure on white performers to write had two large negative effects. Firstly, competent musicians with no talent as songwriters deluged us with atrocious songs. Secondly, independent songwriters, who lost the bulk of their market in the change, either faded into obscurity (like Doc Pomus and Mort Schuman) or were forced to become performers themselves. Some, like Carole King, made the transition gracefully, whereas others, like Leonard Cohen, produced disastrous results...
Harvard has a long tradition of good singing under the legendary Doc Davison, and Elliot Forbes. Current conductor F. John Adams has scheduled an ambitious start for the Collegium; their first concert is of works from Byrd and Bach to Brahms and Debussy. In the spring they will join the Boston Symphony for one of the new Spectrum Concerts: religious music of Bach, Del Tredici, Josquin, and Messiaen. Adams has also planned an informal chanson and madrigal session on the banks of the Charles...
...hotel space, the government last month called in leaders of the local Italian and Lebanese communities and ordered them to foot the bill for two new hotels. The casinos too are once again raking in big money. More important, the dread Tonton Macoutes, or "bogeymen," who served as Papa Doc's private army of extortionists, are being relegated to the background. The warden of the notorious Fort Dimanche prison has been replaced, although an unknown number of political prisoners are still held there...
...occupational pallor of long days spent on sound stages; a typical conversational aside begins "Wasn't it Orson who said . . . ?" and a favorite Bogdanovich recreation at parties is doing imitations of Jimmy Stewart and Gary Grant. He disagrees with friends who think that What's Up Doc?, a frenetic, '30s-style farce starring Barbra Streisand, may be a project too frivolous for his talents. Says he: "I want to make movies like the ones I used to like...