Word: lionell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OLIVER! They've removed Dickens' reformist zeal, but substituted some colorful period costumes, some excellent songs by Lionel Bart and some perfectly stunning sets by John Box. The result is the best musical of 1968. Carol Reed directs a large cast (including Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Mark Lester as Oliver) with wizardly precision...
...capital will whirl sedately with genteel Republican merrymaking, beginning with an All-American Gala in the District of Columbia Armory, produced by Ed McMahon of the Tonight Show (see TELEVISION). For $10 to $100 a ticket, the guests will get Ed and his boss Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore, Lionel Hampton, James Brown, Marguerite Piazza, Tony Bennett, Hugh O'Brian and Hines, Hines & Dad. The night before Inauguration, Salt Lake City's 350-strong Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Soprano Anna Moffo and Pianist Andre Watts will hold forth at a concert honoring the President-elect and his Vice President...
...U.S.A. Gala Chairman General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr. picked McMahon to recruit and stage the show because "he can pick up the phone and get anybody." O'Donnell is just about right. Among those appearing at the ball will be Hugh O'Brian, Roger Williams, Lionel Hampton, Tony Bennett, Carson, James Brown, Connie Francis and Joel Grey and the George M! company. At the end Dinah Shore will sing America the Beautiful with the three service academy glee clubs. Says Pitchman McMahon: "That's gotta be Heartland, U.S.A...
...investigation of man's animal nature is rather humbling in its impact, but it also goes a long way, in the ethologists' view, to explain why he acts as he does. Canada's Lionel Tiger-who appropriately met Fox at the London Zoo and now works with him at Rutgers-has a theory to explain why men dominate politics. He argues that men are biologically more political than women, in the sense that they have a greater ability for what psychologists call "bonding" or the ability to forge lasting relationships. He suggests that there is an attraction...
Godard is partly right; wanton flow is the film's main source of entertainment. But the melodramatic sluice-of-life interludes-based on Lionel White's novel Obsession-are what ultimately swamp the film's modest blend of whimsy and melancholy...