Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MORGAN! Black comedy in the new British mode, with Vanessa Redgrave as a madcap London socialite and David Warner as her former husband who changes reality around to suit himself...
Green Stealer. Many of them are still as green as their infield rug, but they have lots of time for growing. The team's average age is 23.8 years. All-Star Second Baseman Joe Morgan, 22, whom the Astros plucked three years ago from California's Oakland City College, was hitting .315 until last week, when a batting-practice liner crunched into his right kneecap, putting him out for three weeks. With Rookie Shortstop Sonny Jackson, 21, a .296 hitter who fields like a jackrabbit and steals bases on the side (24 this year), the Astros have...
Breezy Patter. The originators of these and other crowd-manipulating gimmicks are Jerry Bresler and Lyn Duddy, the Rodgers and Hammerstein of nightclubs. Since they teamed up nine years ago, they have masterminded 40-odd acts for nightclub singers-Robert Goulet, Gordon and Sheila MacRae, Jane Morgan, Teresa Brewer, Connie Francis, Bobby Vinton-providing everything from songs and arrangements to lighting and makeup. No detail is overlooked. They scramble into the rafters to scrub the grime off the spotlights, hustle around a club blowing out the candles because "they detract attention from the stage." They wire the singer...
Bresler and Duddy, both in their early 40s, begin by psychoanalyzing a performer "to find what she stands for," then work as long as six months polishing her delivery. With Jane Morgan, they played up her sex appeal and styled her vocal treatments after Lillian Russell; with Teresa Brewer, they provided "lots of saloon songs arranged as if they were done 30 years ago." They teach their singers how and where to walk (glide, but never too close to the tables lest someone see sweat or telltale wrinkles), give them mildly risque parodies of such standards...
Inside the theatre these days is Morgan, a brilliant meditation and now and then a brilliant motion picture. Like the sign, the movie swoops from extreme to extreme: the first half induces rib-cracking laughter; the second, sadness sometimes savage and sometimes whimsical...