Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrote this week's profile, met Lloyd Webber in 1984 and has seen him frequently since. "A lot of people say that he's very cold and brusque," notes Walsh, "but I've never known that side of him. He's extremely enthusiastic when talking about musical things." That passion bubbled over at one point during Walsh's interviews for this story. "Lloyd Webber sat down at the piano and started playing songs from his new show," Walsh recalls. "Pretty soon we were making up words and music to a Rodgers and Hammerstein-type song. When he's unbuttoned like...
Andrew wrote his first tune at nine, and three years later began mounting mock musicals in a toy theater whose stage was an old record turntable. At about this time, an aunt whetted his theatrical passion when she took the boy to see South Pacific, which remains his favorite musical. At 14 he won a scholarship to London's Westminster School and produced three now forgotten student shows...
...some wistful despair -- "Sooner or later, everybody leaves," she says, referring to family and pals as well as lovers, "that's what love's all about" -- but in general she is a snooty shrew. Director John G. Avildsen (Joe, Rocky, Neighbors) relies mostly on his young star to bring passion and balance to the piece. And Ringwald, in a hospital scene with her mom, proves she can still deliver the best movie tantrums since Margaret O'Brien hit puberty. It is possible that this Two Kids and a Baby will win audiences who went for last year's flock...
...Nolan is the remorseless spirit whose actions unify much of the book's cause and effect. He spans the quarter-century of Flanagan's story, from Clonbrony to the decline and fall of the Irish republican hero Charles Stewart Parnell, who is quoted as saying "A passion for history -- an Irish failing." Real figures from the past interact with fictional characters, making 107 in all, alphabetically listed and identified at the end of the book...
...felt abandoned by their own country and its politics. There was poetry, if not logic, in the fact that many voters who would have supported Robert Kennedy switched to Wallace after Kennedy's death. Kennedy and Wallace, so different in most ways, drew from the same deep pools of passion and longing for a voice...