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Musicals used to trade in innocence. Fred Astaire could get a thrill just from being caught in the rain with Ginger Rogers. Gene Kelly shouted, "Gotta dance!" as if it were a battle cry or a mating call. But those carefree days seem as distant as Ike and Mamie; musicals have more serious topics--Argentine dictators, pointillist painters--weighing on their souls. Musicals used to be called, oh, High Spirits. Now London's hot song-and-dance show is Les Miserables, which locals translate as The Glums. That is precisely the disease afflicting the modern musical. Artistic ambition...
...Everlys were born in Kentucky, where Father Ike was, in the words of his younger son, "a truly unrecognized genius. He taught us everything we know, how to play and how to sing." (One of the greatest of all Everly records is Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, a 1958 album of country songs that shows the brothers may have strayed from tradition but always stayed close to their roots.) Phil and Don were both still in their teens when they hit big in 1957 with Bye Bye Love, and the hot singles and concert tours that followed for the next...
...public record does not show Ike's having SOBed anyone, but he did. Asked to sign a special bill granting $125,000 to a bombsight inventor who had been denied any wartime compensation owing to national security strictures, Ike exploded, recalling his overworked, ill-paid years under the lash of "Black Jack" Pershing and General Douglas MacArthur. As Ike signed the bill, he SOBed the whole idea with an original but unprintable twist or two. His loyal aides never leaked it until...
Last Sunday family and friends visited Ike's grave to honor him with a traditional memorial service. The ceremony was supposed to mark the end of the mourning period, but for some, the grief will never diminish. And for others, grief lies waiting somewhere down the road, around the next bend, just past that last six-pack...
...friend Ike always was a lucky kid, but luck wasn't enough that might out Highway...