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...this much of the story is true--the Soviets imprisoned the airmen who fought with the Western allies lest they infect the workers' paradise with democratic insouciance. Franta tells his tale in flashbacks: during the war his girlfriend in Czechoslovakia (Linda Rybova) and a lovely Englishwoman (the heartbreaking Tara Fitzgerald) left him--the first because she thought him dead, the second because her husband returned from naval service grievously wounded; his best friend, a pilot (Krystof Hadek) he mentored, died saving Franta's life; even his dog acquired a new mistress...
...Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. On the morning of Sept. 11, primary day in New York City, Rudy Giuliani was paddling along with all the other lame ducks into oblivion. The tower of strength had become an object of pity: the iron man's cancer made him vulnerable, the righteous man's adultery made him hypocritical, the loyal man's passions?for his city and its cops and its streets and its ballplayers?divided the city even as he improved it. After abandoning Gracie Mansion, his marriage in flames...
...second marriage, to socialite-journalist Ellin Mackay (she wrote for a new magazine called The New Yorker), earned more headlines: the Lower East Side Jew marrying the Upper East Side Catholic, with her father bitterly opposed to the union. It was the first big showbiz-society merger. F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a retrospective piece on the early 20s, noted that at that time "society and the native arts had not yet mingled - Ellin Mackay was not yet married to Irving Berlin." The two wed in 1926 and honeymooned abroad. The Social Register refused to mention the couple's return...
...Remember" (1925) Ella Fitzgerald (1958) on "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook." Berlin's dirge of romantic betrayal - the we-had-sex-now-you're-gone mode reworked by Goffin and King in "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" - gets a beautiful, post-virginal reading by Fitzgerald. Compare this with Billie Holiday's version: she loved, she lost, she doesn't give a shit...
...elevating the joyful little ditty to the status of noteworthy art. It’s unfortunate that Charlie Parker’s groundbreaking rendition of “White Christmas” is absent, but otherwise, there’s little wrong with the set. Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormé and John Coltrane, among others, round out a polished, balanced presentation. Christmas music (or movies) make awful presents, but if stumped when buying for a jazz affeccionado, this ain?...