Word: garlanding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Garland Jeffreys: Escape Artist (Epic) Streamlined street anthems from a man who keeps the faith...
Twice upon a time there were terrific child actors: Margaret O'Brien in '40s movies and Billy Gray on '50s TV. O'Brien's sad-eyed face, a Keane portrait with angst, told moviegoers that even if Phyllis Thaxter were your mother or Judy Garland your big sister, childhood could be an unending melotrauma of nightmares and broken ideals. Gray was the winsome lad, then the sturdy teen-ager of Father Knows Best; he navigated adolescence like a middle-class Huck Finn. O'Brien and Gray were natural, winning, resourceful actors who took both...
...when the team split, Astaire kept doing it all, on his own. Though his dancing partners in the next two decades included such game gals as Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron and Audrey Hepburn, Astaire's most famous dance numbers were now his solos. And alone he used the properties of film as cleverly as he had earlier translated stage dancing to the screen. He defied time by dancing in slow motion in Easter Parade, defied gravity by dancing up walls and across ceilings in Royal Wedding, defied age by hoofing elegantly through his sixth, seventh...
...difference between the Stones and rock and roll was made painfully obvious by the opening act, the now-chic Garland Jeffries. He shouted and did "96 Tears" but had to keep reminding the audience why he was there...
...some reason, the righteous, superstar assertion, that you want to believe so much, that I did believe when I say him in concert, once recorded, diminishes his victory. I'd rather Garland keep fighting his rather, fighting racial injustice, fithting urban dacay, than to tell me the fighting's over. This is a good collection of Jeffreys songs for the uninitiated, but besides having some of the best from his albums, it also exposes his weaknesses. Maybe the problem is that anyone who so completely bares his soul demands that we take the good with the bad. So Garland Jeffreys...