Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music is amiable rather than memorable, and the choreography is spirited rather than inspired. But Gregory Hines is delightful as a sly, streetwise Scrooge. "Somebody's gotta be the heavy," he sings in his opening number, and old Ebenezer had better be that some body. Hines is well supported by the rest of a large and obviously happy cast, and if all ghosts were as finger-snapping fun ny as Saundra McClain (Christmas Present), being haunted would be more a dream than a nightmare. Yet the highest praise of all has to go to Robin Wagner, whose sets...
...sentiments are so right on. You know it's gotta be amazing when, on the first side, Oscar the Grouch belts out a convincing "I Hate Christmas." When he sees Santa coming, he sings, "Who needs that great big noise? I tell him where to put his toys...
...woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do," her friend conceded...
...shortstop, little speed, middling defense. Still, the offense can erupt against any pitcher. Says Slugger Baylor: "We put a lot of sixes and sevens on the Scoreboard." One thing the Angels do have is the peppy slogan required of all Cinderella teams. For the 1969 Mets it was "You gotta believe"; for the 1979 Angels, "Yes, we can." After last week's clincher, Manager Jim Fregosi unveiled a T shirt with the inevitable updating: YES, WE DID. If the team can say that at the end of October, lots of folks outside Anaheim will believe in Angels...
...four months, off work with a stroke. The altar pleases him; the thought that demonstrators may march on the Common scares him. Graying on the sides like middle-aged cops are supposed to, he worries about the day ahead. "One little thing can set people off," he explains. "You gotta nip it just before it gets out of hand." Another cop, just as Irish as the first, lists the kinds of "maggots" the observer will see. "There will be lots of wallet lifters, and some of the guys who just grab ladies' necklaces and take off with them; and then...