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Scary Fact Number Four: The players may strike in September. Would somebody please remind these prima donnas that the major league minimum salary...
...recollection of a recording of Carmen designed for little children strikes a humorous chord in anyone who has wondered how the lithe, scantily clad, and sexually uninhibited gypsy girl of Merimee's novel came to be transformed in the opera houses of mid-twentieth century America into the postured prima donna in the floor-lenght dress whose idea of sexual flirtation is to glue her chin to her chest and to peep out coquettishly from behind a feathered black fan. The initially negative reaction of the audience at Carmen's premiere in Paris (an audience who went to the Opera...
...perfectly beautiful voice. You can't do an opera all by yourself. No matter how big a superstar you are, if you don't have a collaboration with your colleagues, you're in a lot of trouble. I think it's wiser to concentrate on singing like a prima donna than on acting like...
...Battle is at last appearing in the kind of role she is not accustomed to singing: tragic heroine. It's not a part that suits her. She would do far better to rediscover the wholesome, appealing qualities that made her a star in the first place and leave the prima donna business to someone else...
...white coaches, arrives at their field early in the season, "most of the Kikuyus were already there, loosening up their arms by tossing rocks at the El train." A two-level pecking order develops; there are the Busters, who are physically hopeless, and the Home-Run Hitters, who are prima donnas. As the summer swelters on, a couple of the Busters have growth spurts and become Home-Run Hitters. The Kikuyus win some games and even learn to execute the cutoff play. They earn a little pride and frequent slices of pizza (coachly bribes for good behavior...