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...subsequent work helped define the Big Band era; in Lakeville, Connecticut. In between frequent retirements, the "King of Swing" recorded such hits as Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, Moonglow and Dancing in the Dark with his eponymous big band and the Grammercy Five. A brainy and sometimes irascible perfectionist who was married eight times (including to Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), Shaw had little patience for the music business, which he quit for good...
...rival, Big Band giant Benny Goodman, Shaw was more adventurous, rejecting formulas to experiment with instrumentation and arrangements. Between frequent retirements, he recorded with his eponymous Big Band, the Gramercy Five and other groups, producing such hits as Frenesi, Star Dust and Summit Ridge Drive. A sometimes irascible perfectionist who had eight wives (including Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), he had little patience for the music business, which he quit for good...
...just said, 'Whatever,'" the Chronicle reported. "It was in the ballpark ... in front of everybody. I mean, all the reporters, my teammates. I mean, they all saw it. I didn't hide it." Yet it is also uncharacteristic behavior for Bonds, a meticulous man known to be a perfectionist about training and diet...
Joanne Gonzalez, a suburban Dallas stay-at-home mother and Martha Stewart-- like domestic perfectionist who worries about the darkness or lightness of the toast she serves her two young daughters, starts her days at 5:30 a.m. and ends them ... well, when the stimulants wear off. Immediately after waking, she starts the first of several loads of laundry, sees her husband off to work, fixes breakfast for her kids (she calls them "very high maintenance, very demanding") and then herds them into her Volvo station wagon for a long day of lessons, camps and therapies. At night, she makes...
...style, which is known for having every frame look like a painting. He explains his process as driven simply by instinct, though he does admit to finding inspiration in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, two classics by notoriously perfectionist auteurs...