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JUDGMENT CALL If viewers tune into the broadcast of the first-ever pro league this summer, the sport should attract even more young athletes...
...Bush will still have some power on the executive end, and Breaux and the centrists will still call the shots in the Senate. But Daschle will be calling the tune. The biggest shift is really a political one, a stature issue that's bigger than Jeffords. There are a lot of moderate Americans who took a chance on Bush being a different kind of conservative, and are getting concerned. The way Jeffords tells it, Bush disappointed him. Will the Vermonter bring anyone with him? And will Bush suddenly go from a 52-point president back down...
...Cuban Perez Prado got America dancing sideways to mambo and cha-cha rhythms with his own "Patricia" and "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (a French tune by Louiguy and Jacques Larue). A slew of instrumental hits traded in wanderlust: "Lisbon Antigua" (by Raul Portela, Jose Galhardo and Amaduedo Vale, recorded by Nelson Riddle), "The Poor People of Paris" (Marguerite Monnot's "La Goualante De Pauvre Jean," covered by Les Baxter), "Never on Sunday (Manos Hadjidakis), "Petite Fleur" (composed by expatriate jazz lion Sidney Bechet and Fernand Bonifay, and a 1959 hit for Chris Barber...
...another song from "High Society," gave him a No. 3 hit and a gold record (his 21st). And in his duet with Sinatra, he teaches Young Blue Eyes a thing or two about the ease of musical and movie-star mastery. "Well, Did You Evah," an old Cole Porter tune dusted off for the occasion, is a clever thrust-and-parry duet, and Crosby effortlessly gets in the best jabs. In one bridge he ends the phrase "baba au rhum" with his trademark "bu-bu-bu-bu-bum." When Sinatra sing-snarls, "Don't dig that kind a croonin', chum...
...reasons that TV critics resent movie critics. Owing to the prevalent and dated notion that film is still the superior and more culturally influential medium, our pals on the movie end get ample acreage and front-page positioning to review movies that fewer people will see in theaters than tune into an average episode of "Two Guys and a Girl." Meanwhile, we TV folk duke it out for space with the bridge column. A TV critic, no mater how witty, fat and proficient of thumb, will never become a syndicated celebrity. And above all, every May, film critics...