Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know, buy a bushel basket of Krugerrands and bury them in the backyard, or maybe put a few million into a mutual fund. But Mom and Dad felt this would be a no-confidence vote in Joe. ``It'd be,'' Dad said, ``like showing up for your kid's piano recital with a Walkman...
...Pudding receives fabulous PR dividends on the tradition of Man of the Year. Does Hanks get an equal return out of the evening? He dances for us on a toy piano while some Pudding producer steals the show. He's too much of a mensch to hit his Oscar competition with a handful of darts, preferring instead to nail a rendition of "that King George guy." He wears a dress. He watches undergraduate men dress up like women and sing. How is this possibly appealing to Tom Hanks...
These cavils aside, the choice to use pianoaccompaniment is perhaps inevitable, given theproverbial difficulty of the score for even thebest professional orchestras. Better to cut one'slosses with a solid piano accompaniment than torisk the mangling that could have been perpetratedby a student orchestra with a limited pool oftalented players and little rehearsal time...
Other aspects of the roast included Hanks' pseudoperformance on a toy piano (producing noises slightly less musical than a junior high band) and the star's participation in "Nail the Nominee or Stab the Loser," in which he attempted to throw darts at pictures of the other 1995 Oscar Nominees for Best Actor...
...enthusiastic, excitable man, Del Monaco is a hands-on operative with his casts. At a piano rehearsal for Boccanegra, a chorister who stepped in front of the hero received a genial tongue lashing. The hapless soprano assigned to cover for Kiri Te Kanawa should she get sick had a bad day, going left when she should have gone right, up the stairs when she belonged on the ground, picking a prop flower off cue. At the beginning of the glorious duet in which the heroine learns that Boccanegra is her father, she began playfully fingering his shirt. For the umpteenth...