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...luminaries he feted in his early years included Albert Einstein in 1921 - the only scientist ever honored with a ticker-tape parade - as well as the U.S. Olympic team in 1924 and Charles Lindbergh in 1927. By then, of course, the tradition had spread: thousands of Chicagoans showered boxer Gene Tunney with paper that year when he arrived in the city to defend his world title; Boston and St. Louis have also held ticker-tape parades, though New York remains their heartland...
...Crosby and Presley did, Dylan ranges from pop songs to traditional hymns. His perky take on "Here Comes Santa Claus" is scrupulously close to the Gene Autry original. "Winter Wonderland" comes with pedal guitar and cooing girl backup group. He does "O Come All Ye Faithful" in its English and Latin readings (including the approved Anglican hard g's for "regem angelorum"). "Must Be Santa" turns the rollicking polka into a frantic, very klezmer Christmas...
Then there's her friendship and apparent long-standing affair with Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor), a West Point flying instructor who became head of the aeronautics branch of the Department of Commerce during the Roosevelt Administration, thanks largely to Earhart's advocacy with Eleanor Roosevelt (a jolly Cherry Jones). Gore Vidal, a child at the time, confirmed to Butler much of the relationship, sharing details like Earhart's habit of wearing Gene's underwear while aloft (helpful with that midair funnel). With tidbits like this, who needs flashbacks to ticker-tape parades? But both romances are bloodless. Even when Earhart...
...worked with everyone from Gene Kelly to Patrick Swayze. How does Jackson compare? Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there. I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made...
...going up. And between the millstones of fee-for-service and pressure from insurers to curb all the extra billing, family doctors are being ground into paste. "We've made it systematically as unpleasant to be a PCP as it is to be a primary-school teacher," says Gene Lindsey, president of Atrius Health, a nonprofit alliance of medical providers in Massachusetts. "We're real adept at that...