Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Welles had the star quality of some tribal monster-god. Ten pounds at birth, he just kept growing, especially the head, Churchillian even in youth. But he had more. Before Sinatra, Welles was the Voice: "softly thunderous," Irish actor Micheal Mac Liammoir called it, "like a regretful oboe." Intimate, intimidating, sonorous, it almost mooed with mellowness...
...five minutes of adenoidal lyricism known as Adelaide's Lament made Vivian Blaine a White Way legend, so linked to the character of the warmhearted show girl who spoke Runyonese that she was the only lead from the original run to appear in the 1955 movie (opposite Frank Sinatra as the altar-averse Nathan Detroit...
...played hooky so many times to see Sinatra. If it wasn't for that I would be a doctor today instead of a cook." --Hoboken, New Jersey restaurant owner and Frank Sinatra fan Joseph "Sparky" Spaccavento, on the occasion of Sinatra's 80th birthday yesterday...
...Empire State Building will be bathed in blue light tonight as its part of the national celebration of the 80th birthday of Ol' Blue Eyes,' Frank Sinatra. One Manhattan radio station is playing 81 hours of Sinatra tunes, one for each of his years, plus one for luck. "Sinatra brought a physical vitality to his music that was unique," says TIME's Martha Duffy. "He's one of the few people, like Paul McCartney, who has kept the ballad tradition alive. As a singer, he's truly an artist of the first rank. He doesn't debase a line...
Maybe the time for these movies has passed. Maybe the classics are for an older generation, raised on big bands, Ed Sullivan and Frank Sinatra. Maybe the antics of Katherine Hepburn, Irene Dunne and Cary Grant in their screwball comedies (see "Bringing Up Baby" or "The Awful Truth" this Sunday) or the brooding faces of Bette Davis don't captivate college students as much as they used...