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...star of Nell Carter, and ran almost four years before becoming an Emmy-winning NBC special. Of course, the producers of this daring venture have a leg up -- or, as it often appears, a ham hock -- because all five of the original actors came back, and The Joint Is Jumpin' better than ever...
...MISBEHAVIN'. The joint is jumpin', again: the jubilant Fats Waller songbook that won three 1978 Tony awards returns to Broadway with the original staging and cast, including Nell Carter...
...aides complain that reporters cover his style, not his message. But he is remarkably successful in phrasing a message that others understand -- "keepin' the grass down where the goats can get at it," in the famous advice George Wallace gave him. ("We can't have no goats jumpin' in the air after grass," Jackson says.) Certainly his rivals have grasped his message, especially Richard Gephardt, who dramatized his anticorporate populism in a series of ads that led Michael Dukakis to say "That's Jesse's line." Jackson, picking up on that in a Des Moines debate, said he could...
...college boys afraid to graduate into an unwelcoming world, from a ruined multimillionaire to a scrounging hobo. These are often archetypes, but just as often their circumstances have been drawn from historical record. The documentary aura is heightened by two dozen popular songs ironically interposed (The Joint Is Jumpin', How Long Blues, Sittin' Around...
...enforced isolation in a strange and dangerous country seems to have made both sides from the U.S. try harder: "See, when the rednecks got together and started to stomp and holler, you either had to go over there and pour beer on the floor and do your little jumpin' up and down, or you stay out of it. That was their thing, and we had our thing. It was good to do it together, 'cause we were all in the war together...