Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After all," asked Oscar Wilde more than a half-century ago, "what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months...
Irascible Pianist Oscar Levant ran head-on into indomitable Boss James C. ("Little Caesar") Petrillo of the American Federation of Musicians. With word that the pianist had failed to keep five concert dates in Canada within the past fortnight, Petrillo banned Levant from all further bookings until the executive board hears the case. Said Czar Petrillo: "I have an idea that Levant feels he is bigger than the federation. This we cannot tolerate...
...Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin (Mercury LP). One of jazzdom's most versatile pianists trips the dark fantastic in a dozen of the best-liked Gershwin gems. There are times when the tune is hard to find, but Peterson's feeling for mood and invention never falters. In the same series and with the same fine sidemen (Guitarist Barney Kessel and Bassist Ray Brown) are LPs of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and Irving Berlin tunes...
Come Back, Little Sheba. Burt Lancaster as a reformed drunk and Oscar Winner ("Best Actress") Shirley Booth as his slatternly wife (TIME...
Come Back, Little Sheba. Burt Lancaster as a reformed drunk and Oscar-Winner ("Best Actress") Shirley Booth as his slatternly wife (TIME...