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...With a well-chosen mix of film clips and interviews, the program takes us back to the ancient 1950s, when virtually the only blacks on TV were comic stereotypes: Amos 'n' Andy, Beulah and the occasional bumbling menial. "There's no room for prejudice in our profession," Milton Berle tells Danny Thomas in a snippet from Berle's old Texaco Star Theater. But of the black stars of the '50s who had their own variety shows, only Nat King Cole lasted a full season, and he was canceled thereafter when he could not find sponsors...
Unlike a British adaptation a few years ago that relied on well-chosen period tunes, this Horses features a good new score, blending old-fashioned novelty numbers and ballads with contemporary character songs for fully a dozen roles. In the exquisite ensemble number Sunday Morning, a lilting series of one- and two-line vignettes recalls the everyday normality that the contestants once enjoyed and that the Depression destroyed. But while Nagle Jackson's book is shrewdly and tightly constructed, his lyrics frequently sound clankingly obvious and unrevealingly generic ("We found the Depression depressing, and so we just went on dancing...
Adam Prince is credited with writing, directing, producing, set and sound designing and publicizing Family Secrets. In some of these roles, Prince seems extremely capable. The publicity is nice. The sound is clear, and the play features a well-chosen soundtrack of old jazz standards. The detailed split-level set--red floral couch, liquor bottles, a shelf of old board games--turns the Mather TV room into a good simulation of an old woman's living room and attic in Westchester County...
...with a series of calculated jabs and uppercuts, Douglas earned himself the title of heavyweight champion. And with these well-chosen words after the match, he crowned himself Prince of the Unlikely...
...also done some exploring of our America, in Old Glory, a fabulous journey down the Mississippi), Jonathan Raban, describes her earlier work as a "romance with America itself, its infinitely possible geography, its license, sexiness, and violence." The description clearly fits this new novel, and romance is a well-chosen word...