Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film. Filming in 11 days, with minimal sets (either Nola's boudoir or the streets of Brooklyn) and a small no-megastar cast, Lee made the most of what he had. And that includes a terribly talented family circle: his father, the esteemed jazz pianist/composer Bill Lee, furnished the splendid score as well as a nice cameo performance as father Darling; and Joie Lee, Spike's sister, makes an enchanting but too-brief appearance as Nola's old roommate. Her looks are intriguing and her manner is wonderfully intimate...
That sounds a little defensive, as well as prideful, for a past master songwriter who is passing 43. It may be that when Simon embarked on the project that was to become his splendid new album, Graceland, he was, in his own words, "not hot in any way." One-Trick Pony, the 1980 feature film he wrote and starred in, bottomed out at the box office. A 1983 tour with his old partner Art Garfunkel was a nostalgic about-face. Hearts and Bones, in 1983, did not even offer up one high-charting song, a novel situation indeed...
...still stands, with its green shutters, 14 rooms and veranda and upstairs gallery extending the width of the 53-ft. front. Elsie Reeves Baum, 71, of Creswell, expects the day to swing from sad to happy as she and others walk among the ghosts of their forebears and the splendid cypress trees they planted. Says she: "They sang the same spirituals we sing. 'Steal Away to Jesus!' And 'All o' God's Chillun Got Shoes' . . . For us to walk on the soil where they walked -- there is going to be some crying and everything...
...violently cross-grained man. His life belonged as much to the history of publicity as to the history of literature. He was a splendid writer who became his own worst creation, a hoax and a bore. He ended by being one of the most famous men in the world, white-bearded Mr. Papa. He stopped observing and started performing. He sentimentalized and pontificated and lied and bullied...
...marched to the inaugural stand with Millard Fillmore. It was Fillmore who then came back to the hotel and moved into his successor's old quarters. Once, when the water supply in the neighborhood became tainted, Henry Willard sent a couple of barrels of drinking water from his splendid well over to James Buchanan in the White House, just a stroll away...