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...last of the Red-Hot Mamas"; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Buxom, brassy and schmalzy, she toured the whole of show biz, breaking into vaudeville at 20, shimmying her way into Cole Porter's 1938 Broadway hit Leave It to Me and Hollywood's Honky Tonk, but mostly working the cabaret circuit, where for 50 years she made them hum along with Blue Skies, grow misty-eyed with Some of These Days, and roar over her gravelly Nobody Loves a Fat Girl, But Oh How a Fat Girl Can Love! "Red-Hot Mamas never grow old, they just...
...predicted, has fallen off 30% from last year. Though some exhibitors took heart when 13,469 more people showed up this Fourth of July weekend than last, the fact remains that 78,059 more people showed up the same weekend at Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, a honky-tonk carnival that has been around for 68 years...
Bergman and the cast sing two other marvelous tunes: one ("Let Us All Thank Satan for His Brew") is a highly sucessful imitation of a Negro spiritual. The other ("Crushing the Grape") hits with very clever lyrics and a snappy honky-tonk melody. Of the rest, only "My Fellows I Am Minded" is definitely second-rate...
...credit to any age is this quintet, written in 1940 shortly after the Sixth Symphony and like it a resolution of the torment expressed in the Fifth. Its many lightly inflected moods flow peacefully together with classical clarity, interrupted in the middle by a short, funny honky-tonk of a Scherzo. The Melos Ensemble of London plays it with quiet understanding; it presents as well a sparkling, icy Prokofiev Quintet dated Paris...
...peaked in such frantic, funny, wickedly knowing comedies as Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, plunged downward in Irma La Douce, and now lands in the murk of Kiss Me, Stupid, a jape that seems to have scraped its blue-black humor off the floor of a honky-tonk nightclub...