Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of society that produces stimulation constantly--in short, television. So these guys start to learn everything about television, and, as kids, they gravitate toward the tube's broad horizon of situation comedies. My guess is that you could walk into the Lampoon castle tomorrow, ask the inhabitants to sing the theme song from That Girl or to recite the list of characters in The Addams Family, and get an accurate response from virtually everyone...
...Mikado and Jack Point in Yeoman of the Guards. Asked to aid a local fund raiser, Kahn happily swapped his tweedy academic threads for the lounge-lizard's black tie. "It was more a benefit for me," says he. "I'd give up my career to sing the role of Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music." So, decked out in a tux that probably cost less than one of Wayne Newton's cuff links, Kahn valiantly warbled eleven tunes, mostly Gershwin and Cole Porter. Just to prove that he hasn't abandoned politics, the songster...
...long time, Brooklyn-born Pat Benatar thought she was going to be an opera singer. Her mother had been in the chorus at the New York City Opera, and their home resounded with classical music. In Lindenhurst, N.Y., little Patty started singing in the fourth grade, and by the age of twelve, it was obvious that she not only liked to sing, she really could sing. There was only one problem: she wanted to sing rock 'n' roll...
...hated opera because it was my mom's music, you know?" explains Benatar, 28. "I was into pop and rock. But I never thought I was going to sing anything but classical...
...best gives the best people the resources to do their best," says Prince. The Fabulous Invalid cannot be killed off by an overdose of mediocrity; it can be rehabilitated by frequent injections of imagination and daring. As long as someone has a story to tell or a song to sing, and as long as someone else is willing to sit down and listen?for two hours or 2½?Broadway will be as good a place as any to do it. ?By Richard Corliss. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York and Martha Smilgis/Los Angeles