Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jocelyn Herbert's production design creates a feeling of violent, boisterous squalor, and Gerry Fisher's camera work -like Nicolas Roeg's in Performance -is discreet but evocative. Of course, Mick gets to sing in both films. In Performance, he delivers a zesty composition of his own, called Memo from Turner, and in Ned Kelly, he gives us approximately 847 choruses of The Wild Colonial Boy. Jagger's best film role to date is still in Godard's One Plus One, where he can be seen doing what he does best: just singing...
While politicians, who know a good stump when they see one, exhort the all-white crowd and country bands pick and sing, the spitters gather around tobacco manufacturers' displays on Billy John's log-cabin porch to discuss their craft. Don Snyder, 22, the Mississippi State University student who has held the distance crown for two years, explains that it takes time "to get your juice right. It can't be too thick or too thin. You've got to just chew for about an hour and not drink or eat anything and get your mouth...
...Diana took high school courses in sewing and fashion design, and the money she saved by running up her own pleated skirts she spent on bobby socks and sweaters. She was proud to be voted her class's "best-dressed girl," and prouder still when she began to sing semiprofessionally and all the kids at school suddenly knew her name...
...actress. Doris Day advised her that it was not necessary to study acting, and Diana says, "If Jim Brown can do it, I can do it-whatever he's doing." She is especially eager to play the lead in a film biography of the late Billie Holiday, "to sing about blues and sadness." Accordingly, she has set herself to storing up bitter experiences that will help her in the role. Her biggest trauma so far came last year in New Jersey, when someone poisoned her pet dogs...
...Mozart. Szell's demand for perfection from himself and his musicians grew from a lifelong, almost superhuman, discipline. A child prodigy, he could sing some 40 folk songs in four languages at the age of two. He could also scribble musical notations, he liked to recall, "that made no sense at all. That's the way the modern composers do it today." At four, he was slapping his mother's hand when she hit a wrong note on the piano...