Word: pianist
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...Athletic Association tournament, two feature direct descendants of Baltimore Bullets: Danny Manning of Kansas, Ed's son, and Duke's Danny Ferry, whose father Bob is the general manager of the Washington Bullets. "I really enjoy his accomplishments and understand his failures," says Ferry. "If he were a concert pianist, I'd still enjoy it. But I wouldn't understand...
...McRae is not exactly a concert pianist, and Brian McRae is not exactly a major leaguer, but they come tolerably close. Last week, for the first time in the long memory of baseball, a father and son played together in a big-league game. The sport has had a rich run of sequels: Boones, Berras and Bells. But not even in a Grapefruit season had two generations ever come to the same stage at the same instant, until Brian singled and stole second in the first inning and Hal followed with a walk. Pausing only for the usual sidelong glance...
When Kevin Kline was a freshman at Indiana University, his ambition was clear: to become a concert pianist. But one day, as he and fellow students were watching auditions for a campus production of Macbeth, the director pressed them all to read for roles. The lines, Kline recalls, "meant nothing to me--they might as well have been in Croatian. I just used the deepest voice I could and tried to sound Shakespearean." That was enough to get him cast as a "bleeding sergeant" who speaks 30 lines of verse, collapses and is carried offstage in Act I--"to wait...
...gets up there and says something like, ‘I didn’t come with a band, but I’d like one for this song. Is there a drummer here? Yes, you, please come on up. A pianist? Please join us. Josiah, could you come up and play guitar?’ We all huddled around on stage and he whispered, ‘Do you know ‘Stand By Me’? Let’s play it in G.’ And we did it.” According to Lowe...
...brother, Matteo (Alessio Boni), becomes a policeman notable for brutality, hasty judgement and grimly lonesome ways. We suspect he may come to a bad end, but we are not prepared for the shock and suddenness of its arrival. We're almost equally surprised when Nicola's wife, a gifted pianist, descends into the murderous radicalism that afflicted Italy during the "leaden years" of the 1970s. In tracing these two lives, director Marco Tulio Giordana effortlessly evokes many of the great events of Italy's recent past, ranging from the floods in Florence to the struggle against the Mafia in Sicily...