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Though the jam lagged at times, there were more magical moments than duds, as the musicians improvised scenarios where all instruments blended together in a mesmeric swirl. The opener touched down with a half-time version of Miles Davis’ seminal hipster tune: “So What...
Arguably the last totally terrific MGM musical, this 1960 adaptation of the Broadway hit preserves Judy Holliday's signature role as Ella the switchboard operator, who has all the answers for her callers but none for her lonely self. A nonpareil comedienne and prime show-tune belter, Holliday teams with Dean Martin in a delight that was her triumph and her elegy. She died at 43, of breast cancer...
...point we’ll all just get this feeling, you know—time to go back. We’d be having more fun there, we could probably be around people doing cool stuff, get more ideas for stuff. But we’re all pretty in-tune with each other, so that works out pretty well...
...crowd collectively giggled, and began to bubble with anticipation for the next tune. His first one had, indeed, been about a gypsy girl—“Shiny,” from the Decemberists’ debut EP—and now the mass of music-loving intellectuals were probably, on the whole, expecting their hero to launch into a number with lyrics culled directly from real-life experiences. So it was little surprise that an even larger collective giggle erupted when the next song turned out to be the beautiful, but sublimely fictional, “My Mother...
...heard it from my boyfriend Josh—can you quote me and embarrass him? He’s 6’1” and 205 pounds and dances around my room singing it till he thinks he’s ‘in tune...