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...open." (Crosby, who refused the mogul's demand that he have his ears taped to his head, did allow them to become a friendly butt of humor in his later career.) What one movie boss supposedly said after seeing a Fred Astaire screen test - "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little" - could be applied to the young Crosby by switching the "sing" and "dance...
...when the students of the Boston University School for the Arts Opera Programs and Chamber Orchestra performed "Le Nozze de Figaro." Putting together that magic four hours required brains, talent, and training - after all, apart from mastering the gaily demanding music, they had to learn Italian in order to sing the libretto...
Barrymore had to sing a rather out-of-tune rendition of Happy Birthday that ended with the rhyme, "I should've never filmed Batman or Titan...
When I sat down on Jan. 20th to watch the inauguration--admittedly as a procrastination technique--I expected to see a couple choirs sing, two presidential oaths, lots of Representatives, a perma-smiling new first family and maybe a musical or poetic solo or two, all in front of a sad looking Bill Clinton. While this is a pretty accurate summary of our country's inauguration last month, I was completely unprepared for the level of religious zeal that permeated the occasion...
...lemony full moon rises above the frozen river, and back in the foothills, coyotes whoop in their companionable way: not the mob-noise of a kill tonight, but a moonlit hootenanny, all the skulkers come together to sing barbershop...