Word: musician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the death of Irving Berlin, McCartney is probably the world's most famous musical illiterate. He freely admits that his repeated attempts to learn to read music have failed, and this is often seized on as proof that he is somehow not a "real" musician. Yet McCartney's reason -- "The marks on the page failed to match up to what I was hearing, so I eventually made up the music and someone else wrote it down" -- is perfectly valid...
...marked -- for the viewer, if not always for the judge. Lawyers, moreover, are warm, understanding and passionately devoted to their clients. Onorati, after negotiating a settlement for the "overweight" wife, accompanies her to her 20th-year college reunion. Hemingway pleads with one client, the wife of a sleazy rock musician, not to accept her husband's invitation for coffee. When the woman objects, Hemingway chides her like a protective sorority sister: "Hey, this is your lawyer talking...
Pete Dexter's eerie knack for placing himself inside the skin of even the minor players in his novels may be something like perfect pitch for a musician. It is a useful trick, done with no apparent effort -- in Dexter's case with no literary showiness whatsoever -- but by itself it does not make an artist. What deepens and darkens his writing, so that art is the precise word to describe it, is a powerful understanding that character rules, that we live with our weaknesses and die of our strengths...
Fred Taylor, owner of HT Productions--which books artists for various area clubs--said he was a personal friend of Davis and that he can't believe the reknowned musician is gone...
...buddy romp," as Geena Davis, who plays Thelma, puts it. Thelma is married to a carpet salesman named Darryl, who represents everything stupid and stupefying about traditional masculinity, keeping Thelma in a state of near childish dependency. Her best pal, Louise (Susan Sarandon), lives with an oft traveling musician named Jimmy, who is nice enough but suffers from the other great modern male defect -- a maddening inability to make permanent commitments. Both women feel more than entitled to shed their mates for a long weekend at a friend's vacation retreat...