Word: giftedness
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/ Love My Wife, directed by Gene Saks with the unerring control of a lion tamer of farce, is dotted with paralyzingly funny sight gags. One is provided by Lenny Baker, an immensely gifted clown, as he divests himself of each article of clothing, except his shorts (no one strips to...
Keaton's whole career, in fact, has been spent in convincing herself-nobody else ever seems to have doubted her -that she is a gifted actress. In 1968, when she auditioned for the original Broadway version of Play It Again, Sam, Allen's comic tribute to Humphrey Bogart...
Leo Sayer: Endless Flight (Warner Bros.). For years, Sayer's own sweet soaring tenor (reminiscent of Elton John's) was obscured as he comported himself onstage in thick white makeup and a clown suit. Now Sayer has shucked his Petrushka image. Instead he diverts his energy into making...
As every schoolyard player knows, the dunk is back in college basketball. After a decade of exile prompted by fears that the advantages of the big men would destroy balance, the dunk/slam/stuff has set backboards resonating across the country. Trying to ensure that the equipment-as well as the quality...
Shredded Strings. This season's array of gifted college players-not to mention dunkers-is among the biggest in basketball history. U.C.L.A.'s Marques Johnson, winner of the new Adolph Rupp Trophy as the nation's top player, is a dunker nonpareil. James Hardy has shredded the...