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Blackstone! is, in short, an updated version of a show that has been delighting audiences for years. Forget the fact that the dances look as if they had been choreographed by the quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams. Forget, too, the fact that the corn in Blackstone's patter is as high as his elephant's eye. His show...
...artificial, documentary nature of the proceedings actually makes for some of the film's most precious moments. Pianist Jay McShann grins and mimics a journalist's banal patter: "Joe Turner, you know that you are a Kansas City figure. You're a backbone of Kansas City, so tell us something about yourself." Later, Basie sits down at the foundation's scarred piano and improvises a few bars of two-fisted stride, then looks up, deadpan, at the camera: "That...
...them-not just the niggardly name, rank and serial number of temperature highs and lows but also the larger meteorological events: cold sweeping down from Canada, a warm front out of the Gulf Stream or the metastasis of a storm from Martinique. It may sometimes sound like a cheerful patter of mumbo jumbo and Celsius conversions, like a lounge comedian who did a semester at M.I.T., but on the whole, people learn what they want to know. The audience pays weathercasters the compliment of its attention, and advertisers pay the compliment of their dollars. The weather is always among...
Breaking his patter only to shout at friends, Caragianes conducts a tour of the streets and alleys surrounding Camrbidgeport...
...scratch your nose because I'm very observant." His spiel swiftly sold five lots of porcelain objets d'art, raising $1,160 for the World Wildlife Fund. Cronkite said he learned his patter from the Lucky Strike tobacco auctioneers, who were last on radio when he was still a cub wire-service reporter. No matter. Impressed, Christie's Head Auctioneer Ray Perman told him: "If you ever want to work for us, you get very good prices...