Word: noel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chilly Thursday night for a long-planned concert, held to thank all the hospitals, churches, police and others who have helped Columbine recover. Despite the Internet threat, the mood was downright jolly. Principal Frank DeAngelis bunny-hopped with Snoopy. The crowd rocked when the band sang Noel to the tune of YMCA. Tim McLoone, president of Holiday Express, the concert's headline act, announced, "At 6:30 this morning they told me school was canceled. Do these people ever have a normal, dull day?" And the crowd roared...
Nineteen ninety-nine was a big year for memorials. Humphrey Bogart, Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire and Noel Coward, among others, would have been 100, Pushkin 200, and it was International Chopin Year, marking the 150th anniversary of the composer's death. While some were celebrated reverentially, others received more bizarre treatments...
Anyone assembling a roster of artistic types who shaped the 20th century aesthetic could do worse than a team comprising Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire, Ernest Hemingway, Alfred Hitchcock and Noel Coward. Through some unlikely alignment of the planets, all five were born in the last eight months of 1899, and thus have all been celebrated in this centennial-sodden year...
Thus is he damned by his own gifts. On the closing night of Sail Away's limited run last month, Stritch told the audience about a conversation from the early '60s. "I asked Noel if he was afraid of death," Stritch recalled, "and he said the only thing he feared was that he wouldn't be remembered." It is his oceanic talent--the range of skills that made him seem, so inaccurately, a dilettante--that has brought Coward's fear to the brink of sad, sad fact...
...Marc Anthony (yes the salsa master) gives a jarring, sometimes awkward, but overall effective performance as Noel, an unstable street urchin who violently shakes out his lines with the aid of a dreadlocks wig last seen on Sideshow Bob of "Simpsons" fame. In fact, the whole slew of characters in this film seem to have been gleaned from the daytime talk shows, where the pathetic and pained get their airtime in America. There's even a scene showcasing that staple of the "Jenny Jones Show"--middle class white kids donned as gloriously wimpy goths. They get a makeover as well...