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...television, it already has. American Idol, beneath the contestants' naked ambition and buckets of flop-sweat, and Simon Snide's eviscerating bitchiness, is reacquainting the country with its glorious musical past. One week, everyone must sing a Cole Porter tune; the next, '50s rock 'n roll is the genre. All right, the performers don't take their vocalizing cues from the swingin' precision of Ella Fitzgerald, the hiccupping innocence and intensity of Buddy Holly. Instead, they sound indentured to the wildly mannerist melodramatics of Mariah Carey and Michael Bolton. ("Just sing the damned song," my friend George Grizzard has been...
...Luny] did sing all the time,” she says. “We used to tease...
...Rather than just a cinema, we think of ourselves as a cinema arts center,” McClung said, citing the Academy Award best picture winners that have played alongside family films, live-band movies, and sing-along “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” episodes at midnight...
...says, are "like wine for the ears." But as the tale darkens and deepens, LOTR turns into musical drama, with songs replaced by underscoring of the battles. The last real song, and it's a beaut, comes at the end of Act II: Frodo and his friend Sam Gamgee sing in reminiscence of the Shire they love, "Now and for always...
...time their march, reminiscent of summer camp, but with a definite army twist. “Oh my buddy’s in a foxhole / a bullet in his head. / Our leader says he’s wounded / but I know that he is dead,” they sing. Only during the cadences does Waterman feel out of place. Her voice, much higher than the others, does not blend in. “I always sound out of tune,” she says. PT is on the outdoor track today. Sarvis and a male cadet start unwrapping...