Word: singings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Often, the team made those ghosts sing. Three adaptations in the early '90s?Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, Howards End and The Remains of the Day?lit a fire under the damp logs of failure, compromise and regret. These were elegant films, but also powerful movies, tragedies in a whisper. The Hollywood establishment nodded Merchant-Ivory's way, with 31 Oscar nominations and six statuettes; but Merchant still had to work his charm, hard, to finance their pictures. Not to worry. Another meal from this consummate host, this gourmet of life (he owned a restaurant and wrote several books on cuisine...
...sing a song for me right now." The scene was a sidewalk in Paris in 1990. The challenge was issued by the leader of a ragtag touring group called the Lost Wandering Blues & Jazz Band, who was holding an impromptu audition. The wannabe was an American-born teenager named Madeleine Peyroux, who had been busking around Paris. She crooned Jeepers Creepers, snapping her fingers as accompaniment...
...sing about sex in front of every guy I ever liked,” says Jarcho. “I also got to pretend to be a rock star, write songs without knowing any notes, and play the drums, which is the funnest thing in the world...
...Kroks will sing, cheese will be served, and sparkling cider toasts will be made at the Faculty Club this Friday. No, the scene will not be the revelry of the old boys’ club but rather the celebration of the role of women in the performing arts...
Actors like Lithgow are of an older, pre-“Punk’d” breed. Some other names I’d put in this category might be Bernadette Peters and Nathan Lane: they sing, they dance, and they’re multitalented and too smart for media pandering. I would never see how vital they are to American art, until Frances would tell me a lovingly embellished story about how intelligent, funny, and wise they were in a one-on-one conversation...