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...Road" films (the five major ones are the '40s visits to Singapore, Zanzibar, Morocco, Utopia - Alaska - and Rio) were screwy, all right, but pretty shrewd as character comedy of a high, broad stripe. With the help of their writers, Crosby and Hope perfected two hardy comic types: Bing the lordly overdog, smart and charming enough to get other folks to volunteer for the sucker's game; and Bob the scruffy underdog, too used to losing, too stubborn to give up. Bing was Bugs to Bob's Daffy; Dean Martin to his Jerry; Bill Murray to Hope's Martin Short...
...Bing is the sharpie, the con man, the cad to men and women alike. He sells Bob into slavery in "Morocco," picks Hope's pocket of his boatfare in "Utopia," forces him into a dangerous highwire bicycle act in "Rio." And in a romantic canoe ride for two in "Zanzibar," he lets Dorothy do the paddling. Crosby never apologizes for his dastardly doings, and the plot rarely smites him with a climactic comeuppance. He is the singing scorpion; it's just his nature, though he'll deny it if you accuse him. "You know, way down underneath I'm honest...
...standard-issue villain did. But these were jut narrative conventions. Bing was, if not a man's man, a guy's guy; women were ornaments to his self-esteem but not central to it. "In a lifetime of tears and laughter," he declaims with trembling sonority in "Rio," "it has been my discovery that friendship between two men is more important than friendship between a man and a woman. Duller but more important." Bing's orotund tone places ironic quote-marks around the speech, but in most movies he lives up to the sentiment. He has few hot smooch scenes...
When it comes to music, Brazil is more than a country, it's a whole world of sounds. The recent megaconcert Rock in Rio III mapped out some of the territory, including the work of several young Brazilian artists who, inspired by old traditions, are exploring new sounds of their...
That's what enticed Louis Reilly, who had heard all sorts of things about Cuba and wanted to make up his own mind. "I've been curious about the culture for years," says Reilly, a retired lawyer who celebrated his 70th birthday in Pinar del Rio, a city about 80 miles southwest of Havana. "The fact that it was out of bounds to American travelers whetted my appetite. The warmth of the people, their music and their pride in achievement disabused me of any preconceived notions I may have had. I'd encourage people of all ages to visit...