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...most engaging amateur performance I?d seen since my cousin?s nephew Derek Nason, a devilishly handsome lad then in his mid-teens, wowed a family reunion nine years ago with his emotionally ferocious, sonically precise rendition of ?If I Were a Rich Man? from ?Fiddler on the Roof.? I?d never seen a sexy Tevye before - imagine Johnny Depp channeling Zero Mostel - but Derek had, and gave...
...Jewish boy growing up in the South during the 1960s and his family?s black maid. The second-biggest nomination getter (after the musical Wicked) is Assassins, Stephen Sondheim?s dark musical about the killers or would-be killers of American Presidents. Even the new revival of Fiddler on the Roof has been reconceived in darker tones than many audience members (and critics) were prepared...
DIED. CLAUDE (FIDDLER) WILLIAMS, 96, Count Basie's first recorded guitarist and a master of the jazz violin; in Kansas City, Mo. Born in Oklahoma, he supposedly helped teach a young Charlie Parker how to switch from one chord to another. He toured into his 90s and played at President Bill Clinton's second Inauguration...
...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...