Word: yes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Will you perform my wedding ceremony?" inquired pert Vittoria lanni, 22, daughter of a Rome street sweeper. The quick reply: Yes. But it was no humble priest the bold Vittoria had asked; at a papal audience for a delegation of sweepers that included her father, she put the question to Pope John Paul II himself. Vatican bureaucrats, already shaken by the new Pontiffs penchants for kissing babies, gladhanding crowds and holding impromptu press conferences, agreed this was another first; modern Popes traditionally perform the wedding ceremony only for their relatives or Vatican notables, certainly not for one couple, in this...
...century, songs are not only classics, they are also beloved. One could sense that on the opening night of the revival of the 1928 musical Whoopee! Just the first few bars of Makin' Whoopee, I'm Bringing a Red, Red Rose, Love Me or Leave Me and Yes, Sir, That's My Baby brought forth the sound of 2,000 hands clapping...
...same old Danny Jiggetts. Big--oh, yes, above all else he always seemed so big--pleasant, carrying himself in the stately manner he always did, and symbolic of the now-tarnished excellence of Harvard sports...
...theater goers noticed him, but as the program wore on, even the most uncultivated picked up on his being there. By evening's end, it was clear that it was the spectral presence of the ghost of that late, great form of entertainment, vaudeville, which had made the show. Yes, the program contained lively music, and a captivating, even heroic, effort from Joe Masiell, but its recreation of a past era was what set it apart. For those in the audience who remembered vaudeville--The Palace, the lonely spotlight, that special rapport between individual performer and audience--this production brought...
Someone asks whether his success has been a burden. "Less so than unsuccess," he replies. Another member of the audience wants to send her screenplay to an agent. "Should I just address the script?," she presses. "I'd put an address on it, yes." he says. Someone else inquires how he distinguishes writing a play from writing a film script. He makes a few thoughtful remarks, pauses, and then adds, "Also, I write the words 'a film' on the screenplay's title page...