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...begins with ?It?s All Right With Me,? from Can-Can. This is one of Cole Porter?s pick-up songs, a chance-encounter tune suitable for either sex. ?It?s the wrong time and the wrong place. / Though your face is charming, it?s the wrong face. / It?s not her face, but such a charming face / That it?s all right with me.? The song is a declaration of promiscuity, and as Mitchell sings he glances around the room, being serially flirtatious: making laser eye contact, leaving a lady in a puddle of love and moving...
...school basketball on national television, has actually exceeded the ungodly expectations set before him. He has resurrected the moribund Cavaliers and, in a season marred by an ugly melee in neighboring Michigan, perhaps the NBA as well. "The King James era is here," says Milwaukee Bucks head coach Terry Porter, who played against Jordan for much of his 17-year pro career. "You could argue that LeBron is kind of carrying the league right...
DIED. GARRARD SMOCK JR., 86, third-generation Pullman porter who gained a measure of unexpected fame as one of the chief subjects of the book Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class, about the black men who, in the Golden Age of train travel, found low-paying but long-term work--and deep respect in the black community--catering to the whims of passengers in Pullman sleeping cars; in Los Angeles. Among the riders for whom Smock shined shoes, cooked and ran errands were President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor...
...DIED. ARTIE SHAW, 94, suave, inventive clarinetist and bandleader in the '30s and '40s whose hit recording of Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine and 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...
DIED. ARTIE SHAW, 94, suave, inventive clarinetist and bandleader of the '30s and '40s whose hit recording of Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine and subsequent work helped define the Big Band era; in Newbury Park, Calif. Though not as popular as his 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...