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...Edie Adams B Jamie Lee Curtis C Harry Houdini D Thomas Jefferson E Hedy Lamarr F Abraham Lincoln G Zeppo Marx H Paul Revere I Lillian Russell J Mark Twain...
...Harvard alum-band Seventeen turn up at Bill's Bar on Dec. 7. Lots of female performers in town too: Rickie Lee Jones on Dec. 6, Dido and the Bangles on Dec. 7 and Melissa Ferrick on Dec. 8. And in the Where-are-they-now? category, Richard Marx pops up, incongruously at the Paradise, on Dec. 3. Wherever you go... whatever you do... I will be right here waiting...
Read this book not for its epic retelling of his long descent into dementia or its ax-grinding with the singer's fourth wife, Barbara Marx, but for its thoughtful, sometimes moving recollections of growing up as Beverly Hills-Palm Springs royalty with an intermittently available father whose flaws cast very long shadows. Though there's little about music here, another of Ms. Sinatra's observations puts Frank's shortcomings into proper perspective: "Had he been a healthier, less tortured man, he might have been Perry Como." Of course you can't balance a childhood against...
...verbal comic, Allen was the fastest gun in the business, and a true heir to Groucho Marx for his inventiveness with language, constantly pirouetting around the tired cliché or the pretentious phrase. Yet he had an infallible internal censor that kept his wisecracks from ever being cheap, or risqué, or mean. He kept a police whistle at his desk, which he'd blow whenever a line or bit of business crossed the line. He remained old-fashioned that way, as well as in his stubborn refusal, unlike Carson and almost everyone that followed, to do "savers" when...
...Verve, should be promoting his solo album at the Paradise next Wednesday, but it's been postponed. On sale right now are tickets for the WBCN X-Mas Rave show (headlined by Collective Soul) on Nov. 29, for the Shane McGowan show on Nov. 30 and for the Richard Marx show on Dec. 3. And if you buy tickets for all three concerts, yes, you can call yourself eclectic...