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...friends, somehow, had disappeared.) Tarek said he wouldn't have time to discuss anything. I asked for his phone number, and he refused to give it to me. I gave my last name and asked what his was. "None of your business," he said with a thin smile...
When the curtain rises on the only new American musical of this Broadway season, the sole character onstage is a dog. That turns out to be depressingly symbolic. Five years and more in the making, derived from the beloved Thin Man movies, shaped by creators whose credits range from Gypsy and West Side Story through Applause and Annie to Miss Saigon, cast with three Tony Award winners and designed by two more, Nick & Nora should have absolutely everything going for it. But the show that opens on Broadway this week is a crashing bore -- cranky and arbitrary as a love...
Well, almost never. Hit tunes from late in his career like Those Lazy-Hazy- Crazy Days of Summer and Ramblin' Rose stretched his credentials pretty thin and are nowhere to be found on Mosaic. Neither are such excellent songs as Mona Lisa, a 1950 smash that was also the first Cole side to have no trio inflection whatsoever. The Mosaic set is for jazz fans, not nostalgists, and at $270 it is not an impulse purchase. (It is available only by mail or phone order from Mosaic...
...every game, there is a thin line between winning and losing. If this year's team can do the Pandole thing, it will bring home another NCAA championship...
That was then. Glory days, but as the years and the story's somewhat invertebrate plot progress -- Keillor's authentically rural narrative method is infinite digression -- the pickings thin out. Like the rest of WLT's hayseeds and gallus snappers, the Shepherd Boys begin to lose listeners. In their prime, Keillor relates, they "could kill a quart like it was lemonade and and then they would jump in the sack with anything in high heels, hop out and sing 'The Old Rugged Cross,' and feel so good, they'd jump right back in." Maybe they still could, given the chance...