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...Side, has Florence offering words to the wounded ("Never stay too long in your bed,/ Never lose your heart, use your head"), and Paige taunts the lyric into an anthem of cold-steel defiance. Here she evokes the clarion brass of Ethel Merman, the liquid phrasing of Barbra Streisand and the rasping energy of the Ronettes--an electrifying amalgam. Chess reveals Paige as the strongest, smartest voice in today's musical theater...
...Cott elicits from the reclusive Canadian his views on teaching ("Given half an hour of your time and your spirit and a quiet room, I could teach any of you how to play the piano"), composers ("I really don't like Mozart") and pop music ("At her best, Barbra Streisand is probably the greatest singing actress since Maria Callas"). Often technical, and sometimes sycophantic, the book is perhaps best appreciated by Gould aficionados, but it gives an insight into the pianist's eclectic thought processes...
...Barbra Streisand's 1983 film adaptation of his short story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy, produced a Hollywood extravaganza so removed from the original that he still finds the whole subject extremely painful. But that setback didn't dissuade Isaac Bashevis Singer, 80, from launching two new plays off-Broadway. A Play for the Devil is currently running in Yiddish at the Folksbiene Theater, and a dramatic adaptation of his story Shlemiel, the First just closed at the Jewish Repertory Theater. Singer, who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, has no illusions about the differences between drama...
...Face in the mirror looks the same./ Every morning I keep looking for a change." Color her chameleon, for Barbra Streisand's persona seems constantly to change, if not every morning, at least with the times. And certainly with the trends. The lyrics are from her new album, Emotion, and to promote it she made her first video, which debuted last week (with Kris Kristofferson, 45, as her unbilled costar) on Entertainment Tonight. Since what's new is neo and what's hot is retro, the 6-min. clip for the song Left in the Dark features...
...Lost Colony, which was commenced in the summer of 1937 on Roanoke Island, a sandspit between Nags Head and the mainland of North Carolina. The director for the past 21 years has been Joe Layton (a director of some note, as Diana Ross, Bette Midler or Barbra Streisand could tell you), who was saying to the cast during their muggy dress rehearsal, "You're boring. You're dull. Everybody's sounding alike. Everybody's saying lines...