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Mitchell Johnson, 16 --13 when crime committed --Tried as a juvenile in Arkansas --With Golden, killed a teacher and four students, wounded 10 --At a youth facility until 21 LIFE NOW Allowed two phone calls a month, only to immediate family. Told his mom he has forgotten how to sing...
...teenager, I worked as an usher at the Paramount Theater in New York City. My family needed every dime we could get to make ends meet, but I paid a dollar a week for singing lessons. I needed to know: Was I wasting the money? So when Perry headlined the Paramount, I decided to go for broke. Taking him up in the elevator, I asked if he would listen to me sing and tell me if I had a chance to make...
...Well, Did You Evah," an old Cole Porter tune dusted off for the occasion, is a clever thrust-and-parry duet, and Crosby effortlessly gets in the best jabs. In one bridge he ends the phrase "baba au rhum" with his trademark "bu-bu-bu-bu-bum." When Sinatra sing-snarls, "Don't dig that kind a croonin', chum," Crosby speaks his response with a withering vagueness, "You must be one of the newer fellas." The Crosby-Sinatra animosity is, of course, all banter - the Hope-Crosby rivalry set to bubbly music - and exquisitely realized...
...fantasy language of film, it was the most natural thing for a fella and a gal to burst into song. Just about everybody sang: Cagney, Gable, the Marx Brothers, every cowboy from Gene Autry to John Wayne. And when the stars didn't sing, they danced. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers not only taught the nation new steps but, dancing cheek to cheek, they put love in motion. They defined la belle, la perfectly swell romance...
...smash was Grease, in 1978. Since then, only animated features like Beauty and the Beast have put fannies in the seats and songs on the Top 40. And lately, even the cartoons are doing without a lot of new songs. Today the notion of people opening their mouths to sing their hearts out is as anachronistic as speaking in iambic pentameter...