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...brother Arthur a keyboard prodigy and later a professor at the Cleveland Institute of Music. To the Loessers, popular music was infra dig, but Frank loved it. Like the cantor's son in The Jazz Singer, or pert Owl Jolson in the Tex Avery cartoon I Love to Sing-a, he had to battle his family's resistance to mainstream pop. Indeed, Loesser's nearly operatic score for The Most Happy Fella might have been his way of saying, Papa, can you hear it? Arthur, can you see it? I made real music...
...smarts and sparks in Guys and Dolls - fast and forceful, perennially revived and the one period musical that never loses its topicality. That show exemplifies the credo Loesser lived by: "LOUD is good." Which echoes in a comment Hutton made in the TCM interview: "Oh, I couldn't sing good, but boy, I sure sang loud!" Talk about true minds meeting: Loesser was just the fella to put funny words in her big mouth...
...unique in many ways, not least as a Hutton vehicle. Sturges, a raffish character who was every bit as rumbustious as his star, nonetheless cast her as the recipient of most of the mayhem rather than the perp; and he didn't give her any numbers to sing. The set pieces here are all conversations - between Trudy and Norval or Trudy and her savvy kid sister (Diana Lynn) - eight extended dialogues, from two to four mins. long, and most of them done without cutting away. That means the performers have to build the emotion, the tension, the comedy, on their...
HELP WANTED: Pastor's wife. Must sing, play music, lead youth groups, raise seraphic children, entertain church notables, minister to other wives, have ability to recite Bible backward and choreograph Christmas pageant. Must keep pastor sated, peaceful and out of trouble. Difficult colleagues, demanding customers, erratic hours...
...Royal dedicate slushy ballads to the Socialist Party candidate with titles such as "One Rose, One Campaign, One Woman." Sarkozy - a more polarizing figure - has inspired tributes and tirades in equal measure. Anti-Sarkozy numbers include "S.A.R.K.O." - a comprehensive diss sung to the tune of "D.I.S.C.O." - while supporters sing his praises on ditties such as "Sarko-Oh-Oh" - a track that the UMP candidate liked so much, he posted it on his official campaign site...