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...with lyrics co-written by Scott Wittman) are fun, even if they never go much beyond parody. When the numbers aren't imitating the "ooh! ooh! ooh!" squeals of '60s girl songs, they are cloning Jerry Herman show music of the same era, as in a romantic soft-shoe duet, Timeless to Me, between Tracy's parents...
...that scene when you're playing a duet on the piano, you really conveyed that these two men have a father-son bond...
...fame or straight intellect"--as long as you don't mind being compared to a flesh peddler. Ah, well. Sensitive types won't take much comfort from Hot in Herre, a summer single that culminates in everyone's taking off his or her clothes, or Work It, a provocative duet with 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake (yes, "it" is what you think it is). The production is passable; the rhymes are emptier than the St. Louis arch. Nellyville wants only to make you dance, and in that it succeeds. But if it's a single interesting thought you're after...
...their book--which is written in alternating chapters, a lovely duet--the couple notably break the code against frankness about sex, describing in detail their sojourns through the bedrooms of New York. "Sex before marriage remained vaguely illicit for members of my generation," writes Kaplan. "This gave it an extra thrill--the thrill of 'sneaky sex.' We were cat burglars of pleasure." However, their sexual adventurousness ended at the altar, the couple say: their long marriage has been monogamous...
...happened on a movie set, it's here: Sinatra introducing a screechy Eddie Hodges on a promotional spot for A Hole in the Head; Sinatra in a duet with (honest) Shelley Winters; Sinatra--well, where is he while we listen to some incidental music out of From Here to Eternity? Almost all the great movie songs (and there are plenty here) arrive in inferior versions--no surprise when you remember that Sinatra would do 10, even 20 takes in a studio to get something right for one of his records, hardly the standard on Hollywood sound stages...