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...obituarists called Jerome Robbins "a perfectionist" -- and you know what that means. His dancers hated him; he once fell backward off a stage while demonstrating a number because when he got to the edge, no one said anything. But he was a hell of a song-and-dance man, the guy who got the musical back to Hollywood in the 1950s after MGM's Roaring Thirties ended, the guy who told Mary Martin...
...teammates refused to comment as to whether the attention to McGwire over Griffey is racial. "I think you can answer that question yourself," was as close as Ray Lankford was going to come. "I don't think it has anything to do with black-white, and it irritates the hell out of me when I hear it," says LaRussa. Maybe the real reason the fans dig Big Mac is because he's built like a home-run hitter of old. In fact, old home-run hitters didn't look as much like McGwire as they should have. McGwire...
...battle on the beach (filmed in Ireland using some 3,000 performers), Spielberg and screenwriter Robert Rodat have been introducing us to members of a small Ranger unit commanded by Tom Hanks' Captain Miller, in effect bonding us with them as they pass through this inner circle of hell, feeling their fear, enduring their losses, sharing their weary triumph when they destroy the enemy pillbox that commands their sector. They--we--have done enough. Time now to rest, regroup...
...Lloyd Webber's most inspired choice is his new lyricist, Jim Steinman, the veteran rock composer (Bat Out of Hell; Total Eclipse of the Heart), whose fevered, hyperbolic lyrics have unlocked Lloyd Webber's long-dormant rock tendencies. To be sure, Whistle has its share of elevator-music ballads (though you can pipe No Matter What into my elevator anytime), and the upbeat kids' number When Children Rule the World is easy to make fun of (yet still darn catchy). But the Steinmanesque angst in songs like A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, or the yearning, over...
...smell of rotting meat blood is a hell of a lot worse than rotting carrots sitting there," Weinstock said...