Word: minnelli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other national cinema the antics in the first reel of Mukul S. Anand's Khuda Gawah (God Is My Witness) might be giggled off the screen. But Indian films are like no other: a churning blend of epic conflict and cootchy choreography, of Sergio Leone and Vincente Minnelli...
...this great arrangement: he played golf and I worked." There, and in movies, and on the long-running Dean Martin Show, the drill was the same. He would show up when the camera had to roll. Rehearsal was for wimps. To practice meant you cared. And, as director Vincente Minnelli said, "Dean would rather die than have you believe he cared...
...oversee a series of special, half-hour music videos directed by important younger filmmakers, and it seems axiomatic that if some new species of live-action long-form musical is to evolve, it will owe at least as much to R.E.M.'s video Everybody Hurts, say, as to Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis. A big problem with Newsies, admits Menken, was that "it didn't resemble a video enough. There weren't enough camera angles...
Since the late '80s, we have been asked to believe that Elizabeth Taylor, Julio Iglesias, Herb Alpert, Gabriela Sabatini, Joan Collins, Princess Stephanie, Dionne Warwick, Liza Minnelli, Sophia Loren and, of course, Cher are people whose eponymous perfumes are better than fragrances to which the names of show people have not been appended. Certainly Julio, Liz and Joan are people whom we instinctively believe to be intensely scented, but do even the buyers of White Diamonds imagine that Taylor concocted the stuff...
...time during the first 125 days for Billy Crystal, Barbra Streisand, Sharon Stone (twice), Richard Gere, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Quincy Jones, Sinbad, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Sam Waterston, Hammer, Lindsay Wagner and Judy Collins is a remarkable achievement. When Hillary Rodham Clinton, after seeing Liza Minnelli sing on TV, calls and asks her to stay overnight, it looks frivolous, a little unseemly...