Word: waltz
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...horse (or more accurately, warpig) has finally gotten the treatment it deserves. For the honest few who revere the Symphony not as serious music but as a macabre, hilarious circus, the HRO's performance was mad bliss. After a reasonably straight face through the verbose Reveries, the drippy waltz of the Ball episode, and the charmingly empty Scenes in the Country, everyone let loose...
...Authors Waltz and Kaplan tell it Belli's next mistake was to assume that Judge Joe B. Brown would repress his own "passion for the limelight" and let the trial be moved out of Dallas-a false hope that spurred the Californian to insult scores of prospective Texas jurors by making repeated attacks on Dallas as a "city of shame...
...squalid aftermath, five other lawyers have since flitted in and out of the case, trading mutual insults through a blizzard of appeals. Equally "grotesque," say Kaplan and Waltz, was last winter's revelation that Judge Brown was not only writing a book on the case, which he was about to confront again in the form of a new hearing on Ruby's current sanity, but that he had sent a letter to his New York publisher proposing that he announce publicly: "I have not begun to write a book." It was that disclosure, the authors suggest, that forced...
Jack Ruby's case may drag on for years. Whatever the outcome, his trial left Authors Kaplan and Waltz with grave doubts about the sole issue in question-whether he was indeed insane when he committed murder before 80 million TV witnesses. What was confirmed was that a highly publicized U.S. trial is more than likely to become a circus. And what is worse, that even an unpublicized U.S. trial metes out justice largely to the extent that the lawyers on both sides have equal skill-and equal luck...
...star's many selves: singer, dancer, co median, actor, mimic, impresario. No one, including Davis, has ever defined his appeal. As a high-swinging singer he has sold well over 6,000,000 records; yet many singers have sold more. As a nonstop hoofer he can switch from waltz clog to Watusi without missing a step; yet so can Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. As a multivoiced mimic he can do nearly every movie star who ever lived-yet there are other impressionists who can keep up with...