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...Bono is exercising the rock star's fundamental right to be ridiculous. At a celebratory post-game dinner in the French Quarter with his band mates, the U2 management team and actress Ashley Judd (an old friend), he throws back some red wine, tells a few stories about Frank Sinatra, leaves a rambling cell-phone message for Judd's husband gently informing him that his wife has been kidnapped by a rock band, and then sneaks off to the bathroom for a cigarette. (Bono thinks the rest of U2 doesn't know he smokes; they know.) After 15 minutes, guitarist...
...That?s only part of the explanation. Remember that musicals were song-and-dance shows. There were dance stars, like Eleanor Powell, who didn?t sing, didn?t really act, only danced. And just about everyone else - Gable, Sinatra, Garbo, Welles - was asked to dance a little. Many of them (Cagney, Stanwyck) were quite good at it, having made a living as Broadway hoofers before they went west. Broadway and vaudeville were training grounds for a lot of 30s stars, and for the early talking picture format as well. The idea was to give the movie audience a little...
...Kelly is the more influential of the two. Astaire?s style, tailored to his unique talents and gifts, had to die with him. Kelly?s persona, the Ordinary Joe (yeah - Joe Genius), could be adapted by dozens, hundreds of young dancers. It took lots of hard work, as Frank Sinatra learned when he shared a dance number with Kelly in "Anchors Aweigh": the sequence took eight weeks for Sinatra to learn and perform. But with that industry and application, young men could copy the standard Kelly posture: torso erect, legs swerving as if jellified. That?s the legacy of Kelly...
...back in the 'plexes, and this time it sings. Can the new batch of thrushes have the impact of Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Lena Horne, Doris Day, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Bette Midler, Madonna, Whitney Houston and Jennifer Lopez? (Not to mention a couple of crooners named Crosby and Sinatra...
...latest job will require all the business acumen and musical sense the 55-year-old Frenchman can muster. Since October he?s been chairman and CEO of recorded music at EMI, a venerable British label with a roster that includes the Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Radiohead. Despite those assets, the company?s market value of $3.5 billion is about 40% lower than a year ago. It recorded a net loss of $76.9 million in the first half ending Sept. 30 on sales of $1.5 billion, down nearly 7% from the previous year...