Word: hellos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hello, Dolly!, and in Henry, Sweet Henry the show-stopping Nobody Steps on Kafritz number and a Tony nomination. "I wanted to be more than a belter," says Alice, though she was an overpowering one. But she has never been particularly pushy or pushed. "I wasn't fulfilling my parents' frustrations," she says of her optician father and housewife mother. "They aren't stage parents." Her TV and radio commercials (she has done 45 in the last 16 months) bring in enough money so that she can take college courses and wait for roles "with a little...
...neat middle-aged executive peers out from the television screen. "Hello," he says, his face crinkling into a sheepish grin. "I'm from General Telephone." Boos and hisses explode off-camera. "Now, I'm aware that General Telephone provides less than adequate service." Plop. A rotten tomato slides down his chin. "But we're spending $200 million in California this year on improving our service." He is hit with an egg. "Cables, switches, personnel, everything." A cream pie splatters over his face. "Thank you for your patience," he mumbles through...
Liszt was the first. He dropped by to say hello one day in the 1930s when Rosemary Brown was only seven. "He had long white hair and wore a black gown," she recalls, "and he told me that when I grew up, he would give me music." Sure enough, one day in 1964, when Rosemary was playing the piano in her home in Laitwood Road, Balham, one of London's poorer suburbs, she suddenly lost control of her hands. She looked up and there was Liszt, hawk nose, white hair, black gown and all, guiding her fingers over...
Comic Relief. For all its basic corniness, Wayne's act is shrewdly staged. He oozes sweetness while his brother Jerry makes sour wisecracks. Wayne bounces onto the stage singing Hello, My Baby, or some such wormy number. He then launches into saccharine favorites like Swanee, For Once in My Life and Kids, a patented anti-divorce song that, according to fan mail, has mended many a rending home. Lest the unsentimental throw up, naughty Jerry introduces some comic relief. "You're such a marvelous audience," Wayne coos, "I want to try something that we've never tried...
...thing with it, she is Jerry Lewis in drag. During the songs, she slips comfortably into recording-studio Streisand, belting and purring Burton Lane's monotonies as if they were melodies. Funny Girl, her first and best film, seemed written for Barbra. In Hello Dolly she played a part created for a woman 25 years older. In A Clear Day she essays a role that was created for Barbara Harris. Streisand ought to get back to playing Streisand. It is clear by now that she cannot be anyone else...