Word: lerner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fair Lady [1964]. An insult to Shaw, Lerner, Loewe and Julie Andrews. Ch. 4, 9 p.m. color, 2 hours...
Screenplay by ALAN JAY LERNER...
...movie is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's visionary fairy tale about a pilot, crash-landed in the Sahara, who confronts his own innocence in the form of a very young man of royalty from a distant planet. The score is by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe-their first collaboration since Camelot in 1960. The music misses the simple, rhapsodic melancholy Saint-Exupéry achieved in his prose, but it excels at capturing the pilot's wistfulness, the Little Prince's spirit and their joy in finding each other...
...Hirshhorn collection has always been controversial, partly because nobody except Abram Lerner, its director, and Hirshhorn has seen everything in it. Hirshhorn has been collecting longer than the Museum of Modem Art, and with hardly less money at his disposal. The tone has been one of impetuous enthusiasms and voracity, rather than the historically balanced connoisseurship a great museum needs. Thus Hirshhorn's enthusiasm for De Kooning has resulted in a superb group of early De Koonings, whereas some other key abstract expressionists, notably Pollock, are represented by weak or indifferent works. So although the works on view...
...idea has a sort of grandiose simplicity: loot the 20th century for its best popular music, thread the songs together with briskly stylish "footnotes" by Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, have them sung and danced by some of the live liest talent in New York City. The result is theatrical nostalgia as it ought to be done-a delightful musical blowout...