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Bing Crosby was one of the very few new stars of the early talking pictures - we can't think of another - who hadn't previously been paid to talk. Most of the other imports to Hollywood had honed their verbal skills on the Broadway or vaudeville stage; reading dialogue was nothing new to them. Crosby had read only lyrics: he was a singer, part of Paul Whiteman's trio The Rhythm Boys. Who could even guess that, when the group broke up in 1930, Bing would be successful as a solo singer, let alone as a movie idol...
...Crosby hadn't been a kid when he first starred in movies (he was nearly 30 when "The Big Broadcast" came out) and as his career ripened he had to adjust. In "Here Come the Waves" he was still playing a crooner who makes the girls scream, but here he was impersonating not himself but the younger Sinatra, who had become the bobbysoxer's rage. By the 1950s Crosby was part of a parade of aging male stars (Bogart, Cooper, Gable) making love to actresses young enough to be their daughters. For Bing, art was mirroring life: He was costarring...
...hadn't done it seriously, so the results didn't matter to me," said Emily J. Griffin...
...noon the day my flowers arrived, my room was awash in color. Unfortunately, the color of a $49 bouquet of tiger lilies from Flowerbud.com which had arrived by FedEx early that morning, was predominantly green because the lilies hadn't begun to open. "It doesn't feel like getting flowers," remarked a co-worker. "It's more like getting grass." The $62 multicolored tulips hand-delivered from 1-800-Flowers.com were brighter but a little ragged and carelessly arranged. I immediately tossed one droopy stem, and by the next day there were more brown petals...
Until recently, I was under the assumption that our country upheld and adhered to the separation of church and state. Apparently, thanks to 12 years of full-day schooling, I hadn't been watching enough presidential inaugurations to realize that, in practice, our church and state have officially congealed...