Word: hi
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Rich discovered Broadway young, wearing out the sound tracks of South Pacific and The Pajama Game on the hi-fi with his parents: "The music, our shared affection for it, became a private language of the afternoon, a whole vocabulary of joy." But when Rich was seven, his parents split up, a stigmatizing act in 1950s suburban Washington, D.C. His mother was remarried, to a volatile lawyer who beat Rich and broke her down into sad resignation. As he sought the escape of the theater, Rich's love of the stage flowered--abetted, ironically, by his stepfather, who subsidized...
...idea came during a bonfire, you know, when anything is funny, so it was personal to us. Our manager Deb had mentioned a band called American Hi-fi and John thought that she had said "American Pie Fight." He thought that name was really funny and kept harping on it. So the other guys in the band thought that we would make a variation on that. That's how Bikini Pie Fight came about...
...Your smile may be the only one a person sees all day," she says. "If I don't say hi to somebody, oh my goodness...
...best Will "the Thrill" Clark can hope for is a Bud and a hi-five from a yokel with a beer gut. And while I'm sure that Birdy means well, the deck was stacked against him from birth...
...pregnant nun in Almodovar's All About My Mother, made love to a disfigured roue in Open Your Eyes, resisted the advances of Joseph Goebbels in The Girl of Your Dreams and, in her first American role, provided a beacon of moral beauty for cowboy Billy Crudup in The Hi-Lo Country...