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...Start to finish, Jersey Boys is fast, fun and mostly engaging. It's awfully well cast-I liked all four faux-Seasons. As Frankie, Young hasn't the sharp angles of Valli's face, but a soft oval sweetness. His falsetto is impressive, except in a narrow stripe (three- or four-note range) where he's very thin. Granted, his voice isn't double-tracked, as Valli's often was on records, and I caught Young on a night when he'd already done a matinee. On the pristinely produced Jersey Boys original cast CD (with helpful liner notes...
...Tony Franciosa, Tony and Tina, Tony Soprano...). But let's be clear: it's the songs that raise the show to their level, not the other way around. The show's reproduction of the Seasons sound is quite astute; the songs sound pretty much as they did on record, except that instead of fading out they often end with a flourish; and they are played faster, as if the producers wanted to shave a few minutes off the running time, so the audience could catch an earlier PATH train back to Newark...
...That opportunity came when Harvard forced Yale to punt on its opening drive, and Dawson made up for his early miscue. Except for O’Hagan’s sneak on a fourth-and-one and an incomplete pass thrown by the quarterback, Dawson ran or caught a pass on every Crimson play during the scoring drive...
...wonderful lady? who ?went through a lot of hell with him,? in the recollection of Cash's buddy and fellow Country Music Hall of Famer George Jones - is reduced to a small-minded sort with selfish middle-class dreams. ?My mom was basically a nonentity in the entire film except for the mad little psycho who hated his career,? Vivien and John's daughter Kathy Cash told AP this week. ?That's not true. She loved his career and was proud of him until he started taking drugs and stopped coming home.? The screenwriters probably didn't mean to demean...
...blend. A lot of it is personal experience and a lot of it is observation. Cat’s new album “What They Will Find” was released in the U.S. on Nov. 15. They’re all original songs except for one, which is a cover of the Montel Bass song “Rescue Me.” It’s an upbeat, Motown kind of song, so we did a slower, more sultry jazz version. A couple of the tracks are from the first album I recorded that was an independently...