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In other endeavors, Hayes' influence was more readily apparent. Born in Covington, Tenn., 40 miles northeast of Memphis, he was working in a meatpacking plant after college when one of his songs got him hired at Stax. There he played in the house band behind most of Otis Redding's...
If Julie Andrews were a young star today, instead of in the 1960s, she wouldn't have had so much trouble shedding that squeaky-clean, permafresh, NutraSweet public image she got from Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. The paparazzi would have already spotted her at 16 snogging a...
Home is subtitled A Memoir of My Early Years, and it takes us only through 1962, post--My Fair Lady and Camelot but pre-Poppins. But it gives us a full helping of backstage gossip, from a drunken, amorous Richard Burton to an explosively flatulent Rex Harrison. Andrews comes across...
The complaints have become as predictable as the patter for the villain's henchmen in a Disney cartoon: Disney shows are too big, too commercial, too over-marketed - not real theater so much as bloated "theme park" extravaganzas that only children and undiscriminating tourists could love (though the criticism of...
If Shambaugh is Mary Poppins, then Klein is Scrooge. Examining the same evidence of inequities against women, as well as against minorities and gays, Klein's politically correct treatise comes to a diametrically opposite conclusion. Her data essentially find a malign plot by those in power. For many in those...