Word: musicale
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Brash was the tone for several actors who died last year. Van Johnson, 92, was the boy-next-door type, wooing such luscious ingenues as Elizabeth Taylor, Esther Williams, June Allyson and Janet Leigh. But he laced his altar-boy grin with a terrier's raspy impatience; he was the...
Edie Adams, 81, starred in two Broadway shows (Wonderful Town and Li'l Abner), played the Fairy Godmother to Julie Andrews' Cinderella in a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical for TV and hawked Muriel Cigars ("Why don't you pick one up and smoke it some time?"). She lent a pert glamour...
Sheldon Keller, 85, was one of the crazy-gifted kids who wrote for Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows; later he won a Writers Guild Award for the Hollywood parody Movie Movie and co-authored the movie Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, remade with ABBA songs as Mamma Mia! Many...
Top 10 musical politicians.
If architecture is frozen music, as Goethe aphorized, then jazz is Art Deco on ice. France adored that American musical invention and especially Josephine Baker, the black American singer and dancer who electrified the Paris jazz scene in the 1920s. Her sleek, exotic beauty is on display in Art Deco...