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...would take a while for her mother to reach Washington by train from New York City; Monica was frantic, and Starr's team had to calm her down. They bought her cookies. They watched Ethel Merman with her on TV. They took her shopping in the mall downstairs at Crate & Barrel. Lewinsky's father back in California had reached a longtime family friend, a medical malpractice lawyer named William Ginsburg, and Ginsburg reached Starr's team by phone around 10:30 that night. Ginsburg asked them to write down the terms of an immunity deal...
...such, it works terrifically, with faces as new and spirits as fresh as Comden and Green's were in 1944. DeLaria (a Merman crossed with a Midler) and Suber (elegantly, swellegantly hysterical, a Kay Kendall who can sing) remind us of Broadway's continuing lure for talent. Though the musical is a perpetual invalid, kids keep coming to New York wanting to put the show on right here. Where else? When the music's great, the jokes funny, the women sassy and the moon over Central Park gloriously full, New York is once again a helluva town...
...Hollywood Rhythm, Kino on Video's four-cassette release of 31 musical shorts from 1929 to 1941, is something to sing about. They reveal terrific artists--Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers--in their early prime, making the music that made them famous. The tunes sound fresh, the interpretations supple. A melody can suddenly improv into Rhapsody in Blue or Chopin's Funeral March or 'Deed I Do. Half a century before rap, Louis Armstrong was already sampling...
...love to a married woman, and get away with it, in Hi-De-Ho (1933). The films also showcase future stars, like Rogers, perky and alluring from the start, and Cary Grant, who made his movie debut in Chang's Singapore Sue. Some stars Hollywood couldn't figure out. Merman, setting a torch to After You're Gone in Be Like Me, is tough, sexy, charismatic--a singing Stanwyck. But film musical heroines were soft creatures, and Merman was sent back to Broadway...
Gordon and Merman, Calloway and Rogers display an effervescence that bubbles through the decades and chases away our premillennial ennui. They embody the spirit of the Hollywood musical at its primitive best: Have fun; give...