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DIED. IRVING GORDON, 81, songwriter; in Los Angeles. Gordon wrote Unforgettable for Nat King Cole in 1951 and won a Grammy for the song in 1991 when Cole's daughter Natalie recorded a new version that paired her voice with her late father's in a digital duet...
Alas, there's a story to slog through: how the preacher must learn to trust his own and his parishioners' best instincts. And that means, in the script by Nat Mauldin and Allan Scott, endless scenes of perfunctory angst. Vance, who has more screen time than either of the big stars, is required to play it slow and sullen. This leads director Penny Marshall into strategies alternately depressive and manic. She trails dutifully after the dour preacher, then binges on cuteness: a lisping kid's radiance, say, followed by a reaction shot of adoring adults going "Awww." The audience...
...Ponte, Verdi and Boito, Strauss and Hofmannsthal. But posthumous collaboration has had to wait until the advent of the phonograph, motion pictures and the camcorder. Today the late George Gershwin can play Rhapsody in Blue with Michael Tilson Thomas, Natalie Cole can sing a duet with her deceased dad Nat King Cole--and composer Philip Glass can write a trilogy of operas with the French author, aesthete and movie director Jean Cocteau, dead since...
Alabama is home to a long list of renowned black figures, from George Washington Carver to Nat King Cole to Jesse Owens, but it is perhaps best remembered for Selma and Birmingham and some of the most violent civil-rights skirmishes of the 20th century. Much has changed since the turbulent Sixties, but there is still only one African American from Alabama in Congress. Despite a Democratic surge during the Wallace era, voters in the Camellia State still lean toward the g.o.p. as space-age communities like Huntsville grow and heavy industry, attracted by the state's red, iron-filled...
BORN: March 16, 1957, Normal, Ill. EDUCATION: California College of Law, B.S., 1979, J.D., 1980; Claremont Graduate School, M.A., 1985 FAMILY: Husband, Nat Genis RELIGION: Lutheran MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Judge; lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: San Bernardino County Superior Court judge, 1993- ADDRESS: 8311 Haven Avenue, Suite 150, Rancho Cucamonga...