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...zone, houses blown to splinters, cars abandoned on the roads, crowds of huddled refugees escaping a fallen city. It also smells like a war zone. Flying over the neighborhoods where water reaches the eaves of most houses, my nostrils burn with the fumes of diesel fuel, which swirls in rainbow iridescence in the fetid eddies below. It's the dry areas of the city that smell the worst, where the water poured in fast and receded. There, the smell is unmistakably of death - the rotting contents of abandoned refrigerators, and the corpses of the drowned...
...style and imagination is the golden ticket. Just as in “Big Fish,” we are treated to an unreal world where we want to believe. The stark grays of reality—and the gloom of abject poverty—are complemented by the rainbow colors of candy in the Wonka factory and the brilliant blues in the spick-and-span toothpaste plant where Charlie’s father worked...
...stage five clinger” named Gloria (Isla Fisher), psychopathic and newly devirginalized (by him); and John makes a connection with Claire (Rachel McAdams), which is complicated by the arrival of her uber-preppy, uber-delusional boyfriend Sack (Bradley Cooper). But what waits at the end of the rainbow is the inevitable, magical, golden love for both of the crashers…Or does it? Yes, yes it does...
...OVER "It'll put you to sleep" is not the kind of rave most musicians seek. But it's praise for these sparely arranged, lullaby-like songs. The selections of classical pieces and standards can be a little obvious (What a Wonderful World, Over the Rainbow), but the execution is hypnotic. Singer Karen Peris (who wrote the lovely original My Love Goes with You) has a transporting quaver that makes this bedtime disc positively sopor-riffic...
...from the bubbling Get Happy, his first hit, in 1929, to the sultry Stormy Weather (1933) and including such perennials as It's Only a Paper Moon, Last Night When We Were Young, Come Rain or Come Shine, The Man That Got Away and, perhaps most memorably, Over the Rainbow, the Academy Award-winning ballad that Judy Garland sang in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz; in New York City. Born Chaim Arluk, the son of a Buffalo cantor, he started out as a pianist and band vocalist and began writing tunes for revues and nightclubs like Harlem...