Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoped to sing Fair Harvard at your graduation and greet you as a fellow alumnus," Mr. Atwood told Eric, "but in the circumstances I think it best you matriculate at UCLA." He broke off with a chuckle. "There are scads of pretty girls in Los Angeles. Before the first semester's over you'll have forgotten there ever was an Alice Holmes...
Burnt Fingers. The span from Bon Soir to Funny Girl took only 31 years. But she became well enough known through Wholesale, TV shows and nightclub dates to be asked to Washington to sing for President Kennedy. Her opening line to the President was: "You're a doll." When he inquired politely how long she had been singing, she said: "As long as you've been President...
...there was more to the old Nick than a Ph.D. from Sing Sing. He was a man of resplendent metaphor. His shoe trees were casts that had been made from his feet, and he described himself as distingue. W. C. Fields modeled his style, his speech and his manner after Nicky Arnstein. Something quite approximate to the real Nicky might have cured the flaws in Funny Girl. Instead, Stark settled for a paraffin prince out of Franz Lehar, who only turns to fraud out of temporary insanity arising from his embarrassment over accepting handouts from Fanny. Hence Barbra Streisand...
...PORTRAIT OF MANON (RCA Victor). Soprano Anna Moffo is ideally gifted to sing Manon-both Puccini's and Massenet's. In this two-LP collection of scenes from both operas, she enhances Puccini by shading and softening the music where it is too bold, then enriches Massenet with a vivid, vibrant performance of his pastel score...
...Irving Berlin mad when he saw the issue of Mad magazine billed as The Fourth Annual Edition of More Trash from Mad? Mad or not, he sued. In a section headed "Sing Along with Mad" appeared parodies of numerous popular songs, including some of Berlin's best-known hits. A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody had been transmogrified into Louella Schwartz Describes Her Malady, and The Girl That I Marry into: The horse that I'm betting will have to be A sprinter that wins with consistency...