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Lyrics by Ira Gershwin...
...Director Craig Smith stage the songs with charm and style. It is a pleasure to hear little-known works like the title song along with old favorites like Fascinating Rhythm, which is affectingly sung by Marianne Tatum and a group of children. But with very few exceptions, George and Ira seem as uncomfortable in Gorky's play as they would be if they had been invited to the wrong party by the wrong person. In Oh, Lady Be Good!, for instance, Ira's lyrics say it is spring in the city; Gorky's text insists that...
...herself, and that is just as she intends it: "Philosophically, celebrating myself is what I am into." Apart from her one-liners, there is one highly effective if overlong joke: she sings a Harold Arlen medley while the conductor and orchestra, supposedly influenced by the ghosts of George and Ira Gershwin, for whom the theater is named, keep bursting in with Gershwin themes. MacLaine manages to find a wistful, slightly torchy quality in one unlikely number, If I Only Had a Brain from The Wizard of Oz. For the rest of the evening, however, she pounds out lyrics clearly...
...million movie is the "first to be truly representative of what Indian life is like," the film's producer, Ira Englander, said last night...
Rosenberg collected $21,750 at the more modest hourly rate of $125 while Ira Karasick a former Law student who assisted the professors, was denied compensation...