Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When she made her debut as a singer, she was, in a word-her own word-"lousy." But that was at the beginning of the century. Teddy Roosevelt was in the White House, Edward VII was King and she was ten or so. In the years since then, Alberta Hunter's voice has got better, and better and better still. Two weeks ago, when she started a four-month stand at Greenwich Village's jazz club the Cookery, it may have been the best ever. Or, as she puts it in Workin' Man, a song she wrote...
...repartee between Nolte and Murphy that round out their characters in a way that hours of gunfight scenes can not. For example, Murphy is introduced brilliantly: as Nolte walks down the rows of cells in a jail, he hears someone singing "Roxanne" loudly and off-key. Of course, the singer is Eddie Murphy wearing a Walkman...
...switching standard characters and stories around, rearranging furniture in an old house that actually needs razing, not redecoration. Giving the stalwart Brian Dennehy a hunky dimwit (Michael Dudikoff) for a teen-age son and a young daughter (Kathy Maisnik) who is enjoying some success as a country-and-western singer does not make him measurably less like Archie Bunker, even if his brains are heavier and his social conscience a little lighter. In Star of the Family (ABC, Thursdays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T.) Dennehy hangs around the firehouse, an easily irked captain, while his troop of fire fighters bring...
...wimpish Jew-boy. Researching a long Voice feature called "Jews Without Money, Revisited," he spent months in a Lower East Side housing project in New York City, satisfying a growing obsession under the guise of reporting; the same exploration brought him into contact with the Chasidic rabbi Joseph Singer, who became his mentor...
...Like a singer-like a veteran singer-can get on any stage and do his thing. Without that feeling, you can't perform...