Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blind to the limitations of those we love. Dona Leonor (Luisina Brando), a proud widow in a South American town in the '30s, certainly loves her daughter Charlotte (Alejandra Podesta). She is beguiled by Charlotte's grace, her easy imperiousness, her ease with languages, her virtuosity at the piano. And she refuses to accept what is evident to all: that Charlotte, now on the cusp of womanhood, is a dwarf. The townspeople pretend to ignore it. But one fellow, the aging stranger Ludovico D'Andrea (Marcello Mastroianni), sees Charlotte's disability as a sweet eccentricity, like a birthmark...
...nine o'clock on a Monday, and the Piano Man wasn't singing. Twelve hundred people gathered in Sanders Theatre Monday night to see Billy Joel--the man who married supermodel Christie Brinkley, the man who put Long Island on the map, the man who has put us in a New York State of Mind for 20 years--and he sang just five measly songs...
...wasn't out to look for flaws in Billy Joel; quite the opposite. I own at least seven of his albums and have been known to put "Piano Man" on continuous play for a half-hour at a time...
Every time he approached the piano, the audience cheered. But even when he sat down at the bench and played, he didn't always sing. When he explained the lyrics to "Billy the Kid," he played the tune and spoke the lyrics. I'm sorry, but there's just no excuse for that...
...night seemed to be Billy Joel on how cool Billy Joel is. He reveled in how incredible it is to know that 20,000 people will show up at a concert just to see him. Emitting a Frankenstein-esque laugh, he mentioned that when he plays the piano at home, he enjoys pondering the fact that people pay him good money for something he'd do for free...