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...hers. But ultimately that doesn't trouble me. The story of the films is one of aristocratic Fred elevating shopgirl Ginger to his level, and of Ginger bringing Fred down to hers; each brings out the best in the other. Croce says of the team: "They weren't Alfred [Lunt] and Lynn [Fontanne] and they weren't Noel [Coward] and Gertie [Lawrence]; they were the two most divinely usual people in the history of movies." If that's the case, then Ginger is at the soul of the movie. She was divinely usual. He was, usually, divine...
...become one nation. Many people have renewed their faith and have different priorities. The American people are reaching out to others. We may pause, because things have changed, but Americans realize that we are more thankful for family, friends, health and our country than ever before. JESSICA PRESCOTT-LUNT, AGE 16 Fayetteville...
...POPULAR PLAY IN NEW York this season might be called She Still Looks Terrific. It's getting tremendous word-of-mouth in theater lobbies all over town. You can hear it at the Martin Beck, where Carol Burnett (age 62) is shining in Moon Over Buffalo, and at the Lunt-Fontanne, where Carol Channing (74) takes charge of Hello, Dolly! Now, at the Marquis, Julie Andrews (60) is back on Broadway after a 32-year absence, starring in the movie-turned-stage musical Victor/Victoria...
Unlike the Lunts -- Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne -- with whom they are often compared, the Cronyns do not insist on working together. Their most visible recent roles, in fact, have been done separately. For playing the lovably irascible lead in Driving Miss Daisy, Tandy was nominated for an Academy Award. The biggest commercial success of her career, as well as the most surprising hit of the past year, Daisy has so far made $70 million at the box office, an extraordinary sum for a movie without sex, violence or raunchy humor. Cronyn has not swept the field as his wife...
...Neill his third Pulitzer Prize, and sped him on to a Nobel in 1936. And still the jesters japed. Critic Alexander Woollcott, noting that one of the central characters was a gentleman of indeterminate sexual appetites, called Strange Interlude "a play in nine scenes and an epicene." Alfred Lunt, the doyen of Broadway actors, described it as "a six-day bisexual race." Lunt's wife Lynn Fontanne, who starred in the show, said of her nightly marathon: "This is like giving birth--it isn't worth...