Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trips to view the barbed-wire border of Hungary were organized. Light planes circled over Vienna drawing streamers that said "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet." The brother of the Dalai Lama was invited to Vienna to talk with Iron Curtain delegates, and U.S. Songstress Ella Fitzgerald was brought in to sing at the other side of town at the same time as Red-banked Baritone Paul Robeson Sr. was Old Man Rivering at a festival rally. All week long, Americans slipped anti-Communist literature under the dinner places and into the beds of Iron Curtain delegates, or handed it out openly...
...approve). He was duly warned that beauty is illusory and appearance unimportant; he also learned that his vows would not be strict prohibitions, but he was asked to promise that he "would try" not to kill, steal, touch the opposite sex, lie, get drunk, eat after noontime, dance or sing, use cosmetics, sleep in a comfortable bed, handle money. He was now ready to be ordained...
Without gifted performers, however, it would be all for naught. Mr. Goldwyn has fortunately secured the services of Robert McPherrin and Adele Addison to sing the title roles and some of the top stars in the business to do the acting honors...
Ruth Attaway, as Serena, provides one of the most moving and memorable moments in the film. She does not actually sing "My Man is Gone Now,'" but she acts the hell out of it, and frankly it is often hard to believe that she isn't singing, the voice fits her so well...
Diahann Carroll makes a lovely thing out of Clara. It is only unfortunate that she was not allowed to sing for herself, for her rendition of "Summertime" in her own album of the show's music is much more exciting than the dubbed version in the film...