Word: singings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Adam [Clayton] just looked great. Big bushy hair, long caftan coat, bass guitar and amp. He talked like he could play, used all the right words, like 'gig.' Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there...
...fans of Kelly?s "On the Town," "An American in Paris" and "Singin? in the Rain" might not recognize the form, the fact is that, whether an Indian movie is a love story or a period epic or a four-hour saga about cricket, at some point people will sing and dance in dazzling, delirious production numbers. And as often as not - perhaps because India is monsoon country - they?re singing in the rain...
...That?s only part of the explanation. Remember that musicals were song-and-dance shows. There were dance stars, like Eleanor Powell, who didn?t sing, didn?t really act, only danced. And just about everyone else - Gable, Sinatra, Garbo, Welles - was asked to dance a little. Many of them (Cagney, Stanwyck) were quite good at it, having made a living as Broadway hoofers before they went west. Broadway and vaudeville were training grounds for a lot of 30s stars, and for the early talking picture format as well. The idea was to give the movie audience a little...
...Gene, with the manly bonding of "On the Town," "Fair Weather" and "The Three Musketeers." Says Andre Previn, who wrote the "Fair Weather" music: "Gene always did like to have a trio, himself and two other men, two other fellas for him to play off, who could dance and sing - if possible, not quite as well...
...space of 15 minutes, I learned that she sails, she used to do search-and-rescue, she’s afraid of jumping out of a plane, her boyfriend is a marine biologist and hence doesn’t eat fish, she likes to sing while driving and she thinks vegetarians are just trying to be difficult...