Word: glen
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Brooks is what is known among music professionals as a "hummer": an unschooled composer who comes up with melodies and leaves it to others (on The Producers, it was arranger Glen Kelly) to translate them into notes, chords, arrangements. Brooks found that writing new songs for The Producers--like Where Did We Go Right?, playing off Bialystock's line when he discovers that Springtime for Hitler is a hit--came relatively easy. Harder was the task of reshaping the movie into a cohesive Broadway show. For help with that, he turned to an old pal, Thomas Meehan, writer of Annie...
...companies appreciate the savings. "We have a very thin team, and the only reason we're able to do that is technology," says Glen Helton, vice president for operations at Popeyes. A scant six managers actually live abroad, each overseeing nearly 50 Popeyes franchises. "We've been able to have fewer employees with greater skills, instead of having more employees with fewer skills...
...catching it live. For the new CD, the band recorded a dozen songs with Steve Lillywhite, who produced the DMB's earlier RCA studio albums and is known for his work with U2. But then Matthews and his mates decided to shelve that effort and start over with producer Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith). "We were spinning our wheels a bit--musically the challenge was gone," says Beauford...
...foul situation bordered on absurd, with the referees calling 50 fouls during the game (20 on Harvard in the second half alone), including a technical on Brown coach Glen Miller...
...shoot a feral pig three times in the head and it will still come for you," says Glen Macris, a Sydney-based marketing consultant who has some knowledge of these things. That's shoot, Mike, as in with a gun. And last we checked, all you have is a knife on a stick...