Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps only a tribute to Singer Marian Anderson, 79, could have brought together those operatic rivals Shirley Verrett, 50, and Grace Bumbry, 45, for a performance on the same stage. The first black person to sing with the Metropolitan Opera, Anderson has been inspiration and mentor to the two younger singers. Both, in fact, are Marian Anderson Scholarship winners. And so Verrett and Bumbry, who have occasionally flung verbal darts at each other, put aside their simmering feud long enough to participate in a rousing 80th-birthday tribute to Anderson last week at New York's Carnegie Hall. Since...
...actors might be called the lion tamers of the theater. Katharine Hepburn may not be talking good sense in West Side Waltz, but when she puts her incandescent ardor behind any given sentence, you'd better believe it. Lauren Bacall is no great shakes as a dancer or singer, but when she fixes a playgoer with those tigress eyes, cool judgment succumbs to shimmering illusion...
DIED. Stanley Holloway, 91, ingratiating British actor, singer and comedian who captured the heart of Broadway with his performance as the cockney garbage man, Alfred P. Doolittle, in My Fair Lady, a role he reprised in the movie version; in Sussex, England...
...play is the "Who the hell was he?" aspect in which Waters' complex character is explored. Waters has tried to scour himself to whiteness through discipline and excellence. He is a martinet who addresses his recruits as "shiftless lazy niggers" and hounds one guitar-strumming vagabond singer, sweetly played by Larry Riley, to his death. "They ought to work you niggers till your legs fall off," he screams at his charges, meaning "snap to and measure up," the one-line basic English catechism of the U.S. regular Army sergeant. Waters does not hate his men. He simply, heartrendingly, knows...
MARRIED. Dorothy Hamill, 25, 1976 Olympic champion figure skater who became a pro ice-show star; and Actor Dean Paul Martin, 30, son of Singer Dean Martin; she for the first time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills, Calif...