Word: fiddler
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...DIED. CLAUDE (FIDDLER) WILLIAMS, 96, 1930s pioneer of jazz violin; in Kansas City. A fixture of Kansas City's swing scene, Williams played with Nat King Cole and recorded as a guitarist with Count Basie. He fell into obscurity after World War II and worked as a welder but gained renewed prominence while touring in the 1970s and appearing in the 1998 Broadway revue Black and Blue...
...dead Americans. Flash back, and then sketch in a trio of heroes: General Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid, his voice dropped an octave into martial mode); rebel warrior Jim Bowie (Jason Patric); and Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), bar-rasslin' legend, Indian fighter and, in this film, world-class country fiddler. Against them is the Mexican general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (Emilio Echevarria), who snipes at what he sees as the Americans' ambition: "We want to rule Mexico. They want to rule the whole world...
...Ireland’s greatest export—whiskey—the next jig was purely inspired by this “water of life.” The band claimed to be singing about whiskey because of their Lenten pact of abstinence but that was quickly dispelled by fiddler Ciarn Tourishís cry of “Yeah right...
...thing that has kept Hadassah theater groups happy for decades. But that's no reason to dismiss a striking Broadway revival that manages to shake off the cobwebs and relocate the emotional core of a show too often typecast as your grandmother's favorite musical. This is a Fiddler for everybody...
...Jews. Mel Gibson set off anti-Semitic smoke alarms with his film The Passion of the Christ. Judith Steinberg Dean let herself be trotted out before the voters just in time to see her husband's presidential campaign implode. And the first fully reconceived Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof since the 1964 original has been faulted for ethnic blandness. Writing in the Los Angeles Times before the show opened, author Thane Rosenbaum (The Golems of Gotham) criticized the show for "an absence of Jewish soul...