Word: tramps
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...with a pickaxe, searching for a vein of something precious and rare. But in doing so, I came to know that the work of personal goodness is richer and more real than anything that sparkles on the face of a resume, that life is more extraordinary than the automated tramp from weekend to weekend and that this self of mine is wiser and more capable than the person into whom the weary world would mold...
...voices for title characters in such Disney features as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty sued Uncle Walt, claiming that Disney had not paid for the rights to include their performances in video adaptations of the films. Peggy Lee, who had provided songs and dialogue for the film Lady and the Tramp for $3,500 in 1952, won a $3.85 million judgment in 1991 and later settled for an undisclosed sum rather than endure a long appeal...
...Written 60 to 80 years ago, mostly for forgotten shows and movies, these bouncy, brittle, worldly and world-weary tunes - "Manhattan," "Blue Moon," "My Funny Valentine," "Where or When," "The Lady Is a Tramp, "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," dozens more - sound both today and timeless. They sing (with confident wit) and speak (with confidential despair) about tough hearts ready to break, melt or explode. Rodgers' melodies get you humming, then dreaming, but the subject and style of these songs, their matter and meter, come straight from Hart's heart...
...Your Toes" in 1983-84. Why has no producer brought back "Babes in Arms," the original let's-put-the-show-on-right-here musical whose score contains "Where or When," "I Wish I Were in Love Again," "My Funny Valentine," "Johnny One-Note" and "The Lady Is a Tramp"? Why has no canny director secured the rights to a couple dozen R&Hart hits, slapped a new book on it and duplicated the success of the Gershwin-catalogue shows "My One and Only" and "Crazy...
...have decided to elope rather than put their feuding relatives or their families' latest love interests in the same room. A wedding lasts an average of six hours but seems longer when Mom has locked herself in the ladies' room and won't come out "as long as that tramp your father married is here...