Word: singings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This means that banks will not back a big film unless the star is someone even a banker has heard of. Thus, when you want to cast a black version of The Wizard of Oz, you do not hold an audition for beautiful teen-age black girls who can sing like crazy, though the possibilities of such an audition stagger the imagination. You sign up Diana Ross, who is beautiful, sings Like crazy, and is known to bankers from a career dating back to the early '60s, when she was the lead singer of the Supremes. Ross...
...Navarro was expected to lead Columbia to an Ivy League title. Instead the Lions stumbled to a 3-5-1 mark, and a despondent Navarro found himself at Baker Field with emotions similar to those of John Keats when he penned "the sedge is wither'd and no birds sing...
...game we knew as kids once more, with "professionalism the most dangerous thing." It's a time when those of us who still love baseball first felt the simultaneous seeds of idolatry and affection being sown. It's baseball cards and box scores and rounds of pepper and singing "Take me out to the Bail game" in the only place you're allowed to sing...
...dazzling creation, easily the best male performance of the year. Who cares if he overacts--he did that in The Betsy too, and it made the damned thing worth seeing. Pale, parched, and very thin, with a mop of white hair, a fluffy white moustache, and a high, whiny, sing-song jewish voice, Olivier moves through the movie like a haunted little ham, carrying the weight of the Holocaust on his feeble shoulders. The character pushes himself--the way Olivier must have pushed himself to do this role while in and out of the hospital for heart surgery--and suddenly...
Lear opened by promising to sing, dance or disrobe...