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...blame them after all its difficult to take at face value a person who speaks in broad terms of "bringing the university to its Knees." Its difficult not to chuckle at a person who allows himself to be wheeled around campus in a shopping cart as "followers" sing songs of praise. Its difficult not to tune out to someone who deadpanned at Thursday's sometime tense presidential debate " I don't propose to kill anybody - but people act when they are afraid...
Most of these people can't sing any better than you or I, but that's part of the movie's charm and a lot of its point. They all want their life to be set to a soaring score by Kern or Gershwin; they all want to believe that there is an authentic possibility of romance when they visit Paris or Venice; they all hope for the kind of transformative musical epiphanies that would suddenly be vouchsafed Kelly or Astaire as they soft-shoed through their happier--or anyway more stylized--realities...
...musical theater: Mozart and Da Ponte, Verdi and Boito, Strauss and Hofmannsthal. But posthumous collaboration has had to wait until the advent of the phonograph, motion pictures and the camcorder. Today the late George Gershwin can play Rhapsody in Blue with Michael Tilson Thomas, Natalie Cole can sing a duet with her deceased dad Nat King Cole--and composer Philip Glass can write a trilogy of operas with the French author, aesthete and movie director Jean Cocteau, dead since...
...came up with the idea nearly 20 years ago, while working on Annie Hall. "I wanted to do a musical, but not for real singers and dancers," Allen explains. "I wanted people who could just act, and who would sing with all the emotion of people who are doing the best they can, but it's heartfelt. I went to my parents' 65th anniversary, and they danced. They can't dance. But it had more feeling to it than two people who go to dancing school for 50 years...
...undergraduates and two Asian-American recruiters who work for the Admissions Office's minority recruitment program, Quach helps sing Harvard's praises to prospective applicants...