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...views with friends through an annual New Year's e-mail, in which he changes the lyrics of a song to reflect his thoughts. In January 2006, he opined on the private-equity boom through a remake of Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head--changed to "Capital keeps rainin' on my head/ So much is out there that the world is out of whack/ When will we see balance back?" The ending: "We need to be prepared for slim annuities...
Comden, who wrote the fabulous script with her partner Green, says of the original project, "All we knew was there?d be some scene where someone?d be singin?, and it would be rainin?." They concocted a period piece, set way back at the coming of talking pictures, 24 years earlier. (That would be like doing a retro-musical today based on the songs and movies of 1978. Shall we have a disco version of "Smokey and the Bandit"?) Kelly, Reynolds, Donald O?Connor and Jean Hagen make for a wonderfully comic quartet. And the unsung star was Roger Edens...
Volunteers handed out free stickers featuring a sketch by artist Keith Haring to passers-by as other participants drummed up support for the event by dancing to the sounds of "It's Rainin' Men" and "I Will Survive...
...took him back to the hospital. The doctors operated on him, inserting a shunt into his skull to relieve the pressure on his brain, then released him again. "It was evenin', like about four-thirty, five o'clock," Holly recalls, "and we was walkin' in the street. It was rainin', as a matter of fact. Not a warm night." Several ( days later Holly was still wandering around with her dying baby, being sent from hotel to hotel. "The place the shunt went in, his wound had gotten bad," she tells Kozol. "It was sunk in and you could...
Brown came out on to the field, looked up to the clouds with his hands stretched out, his face drenched. "Hey, it's not rainin' out here", he said...