Word: sentimentale
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Paar claims that he is just being himself on the show, and to a very large extent he is. Unlike an actor, he cannot take refuge behind a script or a false beard; he must convince the audience that he is exposing his true face. The result is that the...
But on the ABC show, says Jack, "a fellow named Ernie Walker ruined me. He sold the network a bill of goods that he had a machine to analyze comedians." Walker's machine reported that Jack got laughs all right but that he had no character, like Benny'...
Poverty & Corruption. "I hear all my melodies," Kurt Weill once said, "sung in my inner ear by Lenya." The daughter of an illiterate Viennese coachman, she started singing at four in a neighborhood carnival; she still recalls being hauled at night out of the coal bin where she slept and...
Astutely aware that the pleasant sinkholes where a man misspends his youth glow with unearthly allure as the green years recede, the proprietors of Leavitt & Peirce, a Cambridge (Mass.) tobacco hall and onetime pool hall, invited 31 old Harvard graduates to psalm their shop's 75th anniversary. Done up...
The University of Michigan's Elizabeth Caroline Crosby, 69, topflight neuroanatomist and the first woman to be appointed a full professor at Michigan's medical school. For five years after she got her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1915, intense, energetic Elizabeth Crosby served as principal...