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...musician, which was how the young Moore got his start in the entertainment business - first as a chorister and organist in his parish church in Dagenham, near London, then to Oxford on a scholarship as an organist. In 1960 Moore was recruited for a comic accompanist's gig on the seminal London-to-Broadway four-man comedy review Beyond the Fringe, which starred the lanky British comic Peter Cook. Moore and Cook hit it off, and an odd-couple collaboration was born that put the little man on the path to Hollywood stardom...
...sublimely ridiculous swinger who thinks he's netted Goldie Hawn, in the Hawn-Chevy Chase comedy "Foul Play." In 1979, George Segal walked off Blake Edwards' production of "10," and Moore - who had met the director in a therapy group - got the part. The story was pure Moore - nebbishy musician has midlife crisis over statuesque young thing Bo Derek - and the movie became a pop-culture phenomenon...
...Guangzhou like, well, hangovers follow drinking. I make my way to Voltage, located at 2/F, Jinye Building, 422 Huanshi Dong Lu, tel: (86-20) 8777-2888, an underground lounge with live music and an ice blue ambiance. While a band led by Martin, perhaps the greatest Swiss reggae musician of all time, jams some funkadelic Marley, I drink vodka-and-Red Bull with some newfound Cantonese friends. Afterward, we shamble to Windflower, tel: (86-20) 8358-2446, a relaxed music pub with a botanical theme. Vodka is replaced by Jack Daniels, and my sobriety is misplaced somewhere on the floor...
...thinks she's about to be. When she questions Sidney's "friendship" with J.J. - "Who could love a man who makes you jump through burning hoops like a trained poodle?" - she might be speaking to herself. And her boyfriend is just too square to compute as a 50s jazz musician. (What's he got that she wants? Sidney's answer: "Integrity. Acute. Like indigestion...
Lord is not upset by the fact that her career as a touring musician may be waning, or that superstardom has eluded her. “I think I was somewhat afraid of it,” she says. “I’ve seen success. I’ve seen it. I know what it would take to get there. And I was right there, I was so close. And I fucked it up. I did everything I could do to fuck it up. I think that there was a part of me that just knew that...