Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Performing in Tercentenary Theater on Friday night will be famous folk singer Tom Rush '63, who will be joined by Joan Baez and Bonnie Rait, who attended Radcliffe from...
...Little Leaguers at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, scores of drum majorettes, dozens of disabled teenagers, gatherings of Hopi and Navajo tribesmen, a family of robots, some 20 parachutists, 600 guests celebrating an Italian wedding, a mile-long chain of blind people whose places were paid for by Singer Lionel Richie, a group of Hell's Angels, and hundreds of the destitute themselves. Along the way: concerts, frat parties, even a couple of weddings. Everyone wanted to get in on the act: a group of lifers at New Jersey State Prison in Rahway generously offered to line up across...
...play everything "from a nun to a safari adventurer to a peasant girl to Lady Macbeth." She can't, however, imagine herself trying something as difficult as Meryl Streep's tour de force in Sophie's Choice. "I don't think I could play a sex-starved rock singer," she speculates, pausing to see how that possibility strikes her listener. Then, grinning, she changes her mind: "But maybe I could." She is on view in two fairly routine films released this month, Blue City, a thriller in which she plays Judd Nelson's girlfriend, and Short Circuit, in which...
...suburban high school senior whose parents had gone off on vacation. The script managed to satirize kids, adults, greed, sex, Porsches and the Princeton admissions process in less than two hours, and De Mornay was easily best-of-show. Thousands cheered. De Mornay went on to play a rock singer opposite Michael O'Keefe's baseball player in The Slugger's Wife, a problem film written by Neil Simon that somehow failed to be funny about women's careers and self-realization. Then, shrewdly, she dropped down to a supporting role in The Trip to Bountiful, a film in which...
Molly the blues singer, that is. The one who recorded an album, Molly Sings, when she was six. Whose favorite vocalists were Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Who, for a second-grade show-and-tell about a famous American (in which most of the boys dressed as George Washington and most of the girls as Florence Nightingale), showed up as Bessie Smith, in a big old dress and a perm like an Afro. "When I was a little kid," Molly says, "I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs...