Word: sweete
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Over the years, music fans have often suspended judgment in return for a few hummable bars, and generally rock stars have had the decency not to push their luck by reminding us of what we're indulging. (Chuck Berry sang Sweet Little Sixteen well before his problems with an underage girl.) R. Kelly is playing a different, more dangerous game. His shamelessness is something to behold, but indulging it comes at a cost: it's called shame...
...ERNEST LEHMAN, 89, protean Hollywood screenwriter; in Los Angeles. Though he specialized in adapting popular stage works such as West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Hello, Dolly! for movies in the 1960s, he achieved his greatest glory a decade earlier with the Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis film Sweet Smell of Success and Alfred Hitchcock's smartest, snazziest caper, North by Northwest. Lehman never won an Oscar, but he became the first screenwriter ever awarded an honorary...
...such as West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, he achieved his greatest glory the previous decade, when he used his background in publicity to craft two glorious Broadway vipers, J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) and Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), for the film Sweet Smell of Success, and wrote Alfred Hitchcock's smartest, snazziest caper, North by Northwest. In 2001 he became the first screenwriter to be awarded an honorary Oscar...
Signing a pro contract was the overarching goal for Farkes, but getting inked by his favorite team has made the experience doubly sweet. Farkes is from Boston, and his family has held season tickets to the Red Sox ever since he was six years old. Now, the kid who grew up in the shadow of Fenway Park and stayed in town to play his college ball will get the chance to work up the minor league ladder with the team that is in his blood...
...should have been touched, charmed by the sweet innocence of a six-year-old. However, my reaction was the exact opposite—pangs of juvenile jealousy, unfelt for many years, rippled through my body as I mustered a smile and a high-five. Sure, I was “home,” but my home has been invaded by an imposter—one who is trying to replace...