Word: singer
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Unfortunately, the view is obscured by Olivier's peculiarly busy performance. As in The Jazz Singer, in which he played the cantor, he seems to have stepped right out of the "oy vay" school of acting. Although he is not helped by dialogue that circles repetitively over the same terrain, his shrieking and spluttering become dull and annoying; he turns a simple character into a simple-minded one. By contrast, Gleason, the king of comedic excess, is a model of restraint as the spiffy Mr. Johnson. The two men's budding fondness for each other feels forced...
...years, comes as a welcome reminder of her commanding powers as a storyteller. Her previous book, Art and Ardor, a collection of essays published last spring, revealed her to be one of the most vigorously intellectual of contemporary American authors. Still, no other fiction writer except Isaac Bashevis Singer has succeeded so brilliantly in harnessing what Ozick has called "the steeds of myth and mysticism" in the Jewish tradition. The wonder is that her style has remained as disciplined and supple as it was in her first novel, Trust (1966). Clearly, Ozick continues to meet Henry James' description...
BORN. To Crystal Gayle, 32, sultry, velvet-voiced country-pop singer (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue), and Vassilios ("Bill") Gatzimos, 31, her manager: their first child, a daughter; in Nashville. Name: Catherine Claire. Weight...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Nick Nolte, 42, narrow-eyed, broad-shouldered film actor (The Deep, 48 Hrs.); and Sharyn Haddad, 28, actress-singer; after five years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
DIED. Shawn Stephens Lewis, 25, Detroit secretary who last June became the fifth wife of renegade rockabilly Singer Jerry Lee Lewis, 47; of pulmonary edema, a condition that causes the lungs to fill with fluid and is sometimes related to a drug overdose; in Nesbit, Miss. The tempestuous, controversial Lewis attributed his recovery from emergency stomach surgery in 1981 to Shawn's loving support. Sudden death, however, has haunted the singer's life: a three-year-old son drowned in the family swimming pool in 1962; another son, his 19-year-old namesake, was killed...