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From costume balls to bingo, the QE2's entertainment package is pure nostalgia, often featuring performers like Tommy Steele, Des O'Connor and Fyvush Finkel, who, like much of their audience, have seen their best years but are still going strong. The ship's band plays classic Palm Court compositions from the romantic past. In the British-style pub, a sextet of middle-aged jazz musicians splendidly re-creates the New Orleans sound. Excerpts from Broadway and West End productions are scheduled to start in late May. "Where else," asks Scotsman Reg rhetorically, "can a wealthy senior citizen...
...really enjoyed my preview of retirement life. There's a pool tournament, cabaret night, constant gin rummy games and lots of hanging out with friends in the steam room. I've eaten sliced bagel chips just inches from Soupy Sales and Fyvush Finkel. And I've smelled Buddy Hackett...
...quake sought out not only weaknesses in the earth, but also ? with vicious accuracy ? strengths and weaknesses in Turkish society," says TIME Istanbul reporter Andrew Finkel. If anything good has come of the disaster, it?s been the human solidarity both within Turkey and from abroad. Turkish rescue teams have worked alongside those sent by such old enemies as Greece and Russia, and even where the Turkish state?s own response had been inadequate, local communities rose to the challenge. "There?s still a strong sense of community in Turkey," says Finkel. "It was neighbors, not civil defense units...
Often Glennie would address the audience in her heavy Scottish brogue, and she described the next music, arranged by Ian Finkel, as a "lollipop piece." "The Gypsy Virtuoso" was full of smiling allusions to the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies and the Brahms Hungarian Dances, all poured into the formal mold or a concerto movement. Glennie's arrangement of a Kevin Volans piece, "She who sleeps with a small blanket," is, in her own word, "disconcerting," scored for bongos, congas, bass drum, and marimba. Whoever "She" is, she has nightmares. The concert continued with a virtuoso marimba solo, "Velocities" by Joseph Schwantner...
...wants to go see doctors, but he's eager to get his license back," Finkel said. Home Run Count Mark McGwire 65 Sammy Sosa 63 Games Remaining 5,4 resp...