Word: parkerisms
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This is a perverse linkage of the value of an institution and its temporary usage. Certainly, it is unfortunate when the heir to the throne has aspirations of being reincarnated as a feminine hygiene product (His Royal Highness was recorded in a conversation with Camilla Parker-Bowles expressing fear that he would be "chucked down the lavatory and go on forever, swirling round the top, never going down."). But since so many Britons support the idea of a monarchy--75 percent in a recent survey--why let two people destroy...
...overacts so gorgeously that when she apostrophizes Shayne ("O pungent, seething artist!") the ludicrousness of the line is not too much for her to carry off. Even Rob Reiner (as the crusty, unsuccessful playwright Sheldon Flender) manages to tell Shayne, who is cheating on his wife (Mary-Louise Parker), that the artist "creates his own moral universe" with a straight face...
...years in the late 1940s, the wizard saxophone player Jackie McLean, eight years younger than Powell, spent a lot of time as a kind of musical apprentice and all-purpose guardian for him. He'd take Powell to performing dates, get him together with musicians like Parker who still revered him, and generally make sure he got through the day, and through the music...
Often enough Powell did need help with that; still, the music could dazzle. The way McLean recalls it in the notes that accompany the elegantly packaged Verve set, Charlie Parker "got used to being king of the hill. But when he stepped on the bandstand with Bud, he wasn't king of the hill anymore, because Bud was going to give him back as much as he got." And that, of course, was near as good as it ever gets...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Raphael Joa, Lois Rubenstein (Supervisors); Steven Cadicamo, Charlotte Coco, Michael Dohne, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Richard Shaffer, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Paul White...