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...movies - not that either medium took much notice. From 1937 to 1939 she appeared in nine two-reel musicals, made in New York for 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. And she hoofed in the chorus of shows with scores by some pretty sharp tunesmiths: Harold Rome (Sing Out the News), Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein (Very Warm for May ), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (Higher and Higher) and Cole Porter (Panama Hattie). In three of those shows she shared stage space with Vera Ellen, who would join Allyson in MGM musicals; in another she played with Eve Arden...
...take the long trip at all rather than experience new bitter disappointments. The boy's soul is being systematically poisoned to make sure that he doesn't trust me. Under these conditions, by attempting any approaches I harm the boy indirectly. Come, dear old friend, Lady Resignation, and sing me your familiar old song so that I can continue to spin quietly in my corner...
...When God is in the Lyrics All the little girl wanted to do was sing "Awesome God" at an after-school talent show. Instead she became the focus of a federal lawsuit - with a strange coalition of legal backers
...have social anxiety. How does that work when you sing in front of crowds every night? I spend most of my day holed up in my hotel room, in silence, boring myself to death. Everybody else [on the tour] comes back, and they've got bags of s___ that they've bought, and they've gone to museums. I haven't gone out, and I feel like such a dud. But I really have to starve myself of people. I have to get myself into a calm trance and then I'm just--pow!--out the door and happy...
...DOES IS ACCENTS Being able to do accents, Streep maintains, is like being able to sing. You can do it or you can't. Still, not everybody who can do accents can do everything else she can. Brave is the person who tries to analyze what makes Streep's performances so remarkable. But Tony Kushner, who wrote Angels in America and is translating Mother Courage, gives it a whirl. "She does that weird thing that really great actors can do that really good actors can't. It's the ability to do two, three or four things at once...