Word: songfulness
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...person burst into song in front of me today. That's supposed to be the problem with movie musicals as far as contemporary audiences go. According to conventional Hollywood wisdom, today's moviegoers, especially the ones born P.G. (post-Grease, or after 1978) are turned off by the implausibility of spontaneous song and dance numbers. But I don't buy it. Not one person got a spider bite and turned into a superhero in front of me today, either, and yet record numbers of folks of all ages happily suspended disbelief for Spider...
...with much of the movie-going public out of the song and dance habit, how does a modern movie musical hit the right notes? With help from some folks in the trenches, we offer a primer...
...have won the Cold War, but we lost Eurovision.' TERRY WOGAN, British TV presenter, on Europe's annual Eurovision song contest. Serbian singer Marija Serifovic (pictured) won this year's May 12 competition in Helsinki due in large part, Wogan said, to the support of voters and judges from other Eastern European countries...
...heart stopped three times before the doctors could stabilize him. An irregular flow of oxygen through a tube left him blind and brain damaged. Unable to communicate verbally, the young Paravicini taught himself to play the piano and let the music do the talking. His first song was the Irish folk tune Molly Malone, one of his nanny's favorites, hammered out on a battered electric organ. He was two years...
...hero's welcome such as Serbia has rarely seen: more than 50,000 people gathered in a central Belgrade square on Sunday night to welcome home Marija Serifovic, the winner of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. Prior to her arrival from Helsinki, police cleared the 16-km road from the airport into the city in order to speed her passage, and a banner draped across the City Hall read Ave Marija...