Word: hallelujah
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...officer. Morton and thousands of others are part of a family of regulars who come for grits and home fries, catfish and okra, smothered chicken and peach cobbler. Je's after Sunday Mass is a sight, Newark all dressed up in finery and extended families marching straight from the hallelujah to the harvest...
...left of her, actually. After at least seven books about her life, an off-Broadway musical in the '80s (starring Helen Gallagher) and dozens of female impersonators, the deep-voiced diva is back in no fewer than three plays. Tovah Feldshuh is the star and co-author of Tallulah Hallelujah!, an off-Broadway play in the form of a fictional USO show with Bankhead as host. Nan Schmid, formerly of the Second City improv troupe, wrote and stars in Dahling, in which eight actors portray more than 40 characters in Bankhead's life. And Kathleen Turner, last seen...
...Bankhead offers unusually rich material. The masochistic anecdotes just keep on coming. In Tallulah we learn that the star once fired a young Marlon Brando from her play The Eagle Has Two Heads because she couldn't stand him "yawning and pawing his privates during my speeches." In Tallulah Hallelujah! we find out that she had gonorrhea, wanted the Bette Davis part in Jezebel and turned down the role of Blanche in the original production of A Streetcar Named Desire. In Dahling we watch her throw wild '20s parties, experiment with cocaine and bisexuality, and toss...
...shows. Not so. The conventions have declined into predictable TV shows and shameless off-camera fund-raising orgies. So last week there was one Republican Convention on the big stage, where the newly domesticated party leaders felt your pain and the gospel choirs whooped. But the real sounds of Hallelujah! were going on at the other convention. That one took place all around town at the lobster-and-champagne galas corporate donors gave for their favorite members of Congress and the Republicans gave right back to thank their major contributors, long and hard, before shaking them down again...
...Hallelujah! Crude oil futures were sliding fast Wednesday in the wake of Saudi Arabia's near-unilateral promise to pump an extra 500,000 barrels a day into the world market. By midday Wednesday, the benchmark London Brent blend had dipped below $30 a barrel and seemed well on its way to the long-term $25 target that the Saudis say they're aiming for - a price that could shave 20 cents a gallon off nationwide prices at U.S. pumps...