Word: hoofer
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...ocelot, and a great dark brute dancing a tango. That would be Marcello Mastroianni, 42, Sophia's co-star (with Peter Sellers and Jonathan Winters) in Sophia's first musical, an ABC special called With Love...From Sophia, which will be shown on TV next month. No hoofer, Sophia rehearsed for weeks before taking on Marcello, who danced in a 1966 Italian stage musical. "I'm not Margot," she conceded after taping the elaborate number, "but then Marcello's not Nureyev. So it's great...
...demonstrate all of the star's many selves: singer, dancer, co median, actor, mimic, impresario. No one, including Davis, has ever defined his appeal. As a high-swinging singer he has sold well over 6,000,000 records; yet many singers have sold more. As a nonstop hoofer he can switch from waltz clog to Watusi without missing a step; yet so can Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. As a multivoiced mimic he can do nearly every movie star who ever lived-yet there are other impressionists who can keep up with...
With that one-liner, a new young folk singer named Biff Rose begins his lead-in to a song extolling Salinger's conquer or, George Murphy, the actor-hoofer who is now the junior Senator from California. He then goes on to recite a poem about the days of the whaling ships, supplying the sound of the anchors schlurping up from the bottom and the howls of storms at sea. His hero, Captain Medford, was a big man in New Bedford, he explains, in an era when there were 700 whaling ships "and only about 200 whales...
...precise, whippet-quick movements are best showcased in Four Temperaments. She spends all her off hours baking brownies and cakes ("Oh, they're sooo tempting, but I can't touch them") for the theater's canteen, which is run by her mother, a former vaudeville hoofer...
...love story of two paraplegics. All Honorable Men is a drama about Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr by Pulitzer Prizewinner Joseph Kramm (The Shrike), with George Grizzard as Hamilton. Edwin O'Connor has dramatized his new novel, I Was Dancing, about an ex-vaudeville hoofer...