Word: frankenstein
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...Astaire, who made his name on the stage, just below that of his dancing sister Adele, inspired a recycled Broadway hit spun two generations later from his 20s Gershwin show "Funny Face" ("My One and Only" in the 80s). And on the low end, in the 1974 "Young Frankenstein," Mel Brooks duded up his monster (Peter Boyle) in top hat, white tie and tails to sing an Astaire favorite, "Puttin' on the Ritz...
...border, for example--has been kicking around since at least as far back as Al Gore's reinventing-government project of the mid-1990s. But the question that will be debated over the next few months is whether Bush's proposal goes too far, creating a bureaucratic Dr. Frankenstein's monster too unwieldy to do its job, or not far enough, shuffling job titles and office space without fixing the structural and institutional flaws that make Americans feel so vulnerable...
...premiered the song in a 1930 film of the same name. Dear Mr. Gable "sang" it in "Idiot?s Delight," in 1939; then Astaire made it his own. For Mel Brooks fans, the definitive rendition is by Peter Boyle, as the top-hatted monster in the 1974 "Young Frankenstein." We have to wonder what Berlin thought of this interpretation, or of the jaunty techno-pop version that went to #4 in 1983 - 53 years after Richman first...
...which Bonham Carter (left, at the movie's premiere) and Marie played foxy simians. (During the shoot, notes Bonham Carter's rep, "she was in latex from head to toe.") That's the way things began between Bonham Carter and then-married Kenneth Branagh too, after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Is there something about almost-humanoids that brings out the animal in her? Warning: Mrs. Heston is fully aware of her right to bear arms...
...He’s kind of a gentle giant, in the tradition of Shelley’s Frankenstein. He’s a monster who only wants to be loved,” said Meyers, who is also a Crimson editor...