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Judy Garland lived to the ripe age of 47 before the pills and fame took her down. But even at 25, in this genial 1948 Irving Berlin songfest with Fred Astaire, there was an eerieness to her charisma. Garland is visibly depleted, her voice often reedy, her teen sweetness now a mask. And then, by an act of sternest will, she summons the old fun, as in the numbers A Couple of Swells and I Love a Piano. The innocent girl from The Wizard of Oz is reborn, through her pain, as a depression-defying diva.. --By Richard Corliss
Thanks to the Phelps family, this small, gossipy city can perhaps lay claim to being the homophobia capital of the U.S. Since 1991, the Rev. Fred Phelps, 75, has led his family in campaigns against everyone from "sodomites" and "fag enablers" to victims of 9/11. More recently the Phelpses initiated a referendum on the March 1 ballot that would prohibit laws protecting gay rights. The family is also supporting one of Fred's 53 grandchildren, Jael Phelps, 20, a prim nursing student who once picketed Matthew Shepard's funeral, in her run against city councilwoman Tiffany Muller...
...Four Immigrants" follows the lives of four guys, fresh off the boat from Japan, over the course of twenty years. Each takes a Western name, Henry, Fred, Frank and Charlie, and each has different goal. Henry, the author's surrogate, wants to study art, giving the story a personal verisimilitude that makes "Four Immigrants" not only the first graphic novel, but the first autobiographical graphic novel as well. But the two characters who quickly take the book's center are the ne'er-do-well Charlie and Frank, the budding capitalist. Continually rebuffed in their efforts to earn money, Charlie...
...home" treatment after screwing up through misunderstandings like removing the stove to clean it or accidentally teaching the parrot to swear in Japanese. The pleasures of the "Schoolboys" arc, and the entire book, come as much from its richly detailed minutiae as its historicity. In one sequence Charlie and Fred take a walk past the "Call" building (now Central Tower), through Union Square with its bums lounging around, and into Chinatown, where they enjoy a bowl of noodles and eye the prostitutes behind the bordello windows. So what's changed? Not much. The connection across a 100-year divide...
...class of 1951 heeded Lawrence’s advice and went into the theater. Owsley, who played Dr. Mendoza in the cast of Buddha Knows Best, described the Hasty Pudding as a “great preamble” for the careers of several members of the cast. Fred H. Gwynne ’51, a three-year HPT cast member and the President of The Harvard Lampoon, went on to become Herman Munster in the popular eponymous television program. David A. Hays ’52, who designed the sets for Buddha Knows Best, designed the sets...