Word: hacketts
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Died. Robert Leo (Bobby) Hackett, 61, American jazz virtuoso; of a heart attack; in West Chatham, Mass. Young Bobby left school in Providence, R.I., at 14 to play guitar gigs in local restaurants, and later moved on to the cornet, the trumpet and fame with Glenn Miller and other titans of the prewar Big Band era. More recently, Hackett had been paying his bills by performing anonymously in treacly mood-music albums released under Jackie Gleason's name, but his reputation seems secure -almost as hot, cool and craftsmanlike on the horn in pieces like String of Pearls...
Spilled Contempt. Howe has less affection for such latter-day Jewish comedians as Buddy Hackett, Jack...
...tone of level rage and tilted compassion, his ability to make human even the most grotesque mockery. The novel, a series of interrelated sketches, does not have the strong narrative that lends itself best to film adaptation. So this movie has trouble finding a focus. The protagonist is Tod Hackett (William Atherton), an aspiring artist who works in the production department of a major studio. Hackett also nourishes a private vision of cataclysm, which he wants to get on canvas and call The Burning of Los Angeles. It is good to know this in advance, for although Schlesinger shows Hackett...
Tenor saxman Zoot Sims is still cranking out the same old ballads that he recorded about ten years ago. His latest album, Strike Up The Band, with Bobby Hackett, features some pleasant renditions of a couple of Gershwin warhorses, including "Embraceable You." Nothing really innovative there, however. But Sims is paired with Al Cohn over at Sandy's Jazz Revival and there is a good chance that he'll snap out of it, and play some of his own stuff. While you are there try to tell the difference between Sims and the great Lester Young. Through Saturday...
Your reviewer tried putting a feather in my back by writing that while Paar put on Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buddy Hackett, Cavett presented Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles and Lester Maddox. Your research and/or bias could just as honestly have stated that while Cavett presented Tiny Tun, George Jessel and Totie Fields, Paar put on John and Robert Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Dr. Albert Schweitzer...