Word: rat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie is silliest when show-biz celebrities parade on and off the stage as if it were Impressionists Night at the Improv. Sinatra gets marital advice from Humphrey Bogart, rushes to Sammy Davis Jr.'s bedside after his car accident and cavorts with the Rat Pack in a steam room at the Sands Hotel. The scenes between Sinatra and the Kennedy family are the phoniest of all, but they do open up the touchy subject of Sinatra's mob links. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Joe Kennedy asks Sinatra for help with "our friends in Chicago who control the unions...
THIS IS A LOVE SONG, OF COURSE. Aladdin the street rat is taking Princess Jasmine on a flight into the liberating skyland of first love. But the Tim Rice lyric, riding the lush carpet of Alan Menken's melody, also defines the sorcery of movie animation. Artists wave the wand of a pencil over a piece of paper and, like the most genial genie, create unbelievable sights, indescribable feelings. "Don't you dare close your eyes!/ A hundred thousand things to see!/ Hold your breath, it gets better...
Beltran sang in Greek, Spanish and English, while Paul sang a tune about Wilbur, the politically incorrect rat. The concert lineup also included local artists Barbara Kessler, with Orrin Star and Rod MacDonald making surprise appearances...
With their trademark warped view of reality, UKJ also tackles social problems like homelessness and censorship. According to "Panhandlin' Prince," the homeless are cool dudes rebelling against society: "I wouldn't trade no places to be in rat races/No siree...
...Mitchell's hands the city skyline, tugboats, river barges, even rodents have a singularity that others overlooked: "A lust for blood seems to take & hold of the brown rat. One night, in the poultry part of old Gansevoort Market, alongside the Hudson, a burrow of them bit the throats of over three hundred broilers and ate less than a dozen. Before this part of the market was abandoned the rats practically had charge of it. Some of them nested in the drawers of desks. When the drawers were pulled open, they leaped out, snarling...