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...does the Army want with Irving? Up to now the Allies had a chance!" The Army wanted him to do what he did best: write songs. While serving at Camp Upton, near Yaphank, Long Island, he composed a musical for the boys to put on, and late that summer "Yip Yip Yaphank" transferred to Broadway. The show had a couple of hits: "Mandy" and "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," which Sgt. Berlin performed himself. The notorious night bird took special pleasure in the song?s wryly sociopathic lyrics: "Someday I'm going to murder...
...Berlin's largest contribution to the war effort was a revue called "This Is the Army." The War Department had asked him to consider reviving "Yip Yip Yaphank," but the project soon became grander, and kept growing as the show moved from Broadway to Washington (where President Roosevelt attended a special matinee) to legit theaters and military bases around the world. Berlin eventually wrote nearly three dozen songs for various permutations of the 300-man show, refining some as the war mood changed ("Dressed Up to Kill" was softened to "Dressed Up to Win"). He not only supervised the production...
...playing the father of a future U.S. President (Ronald Reagan) - gave "God Bless America" an impressive mounting. Smith sings the number over a poignant montage of families anxious over the coming war. Murphy hears the song on the radio and says, "You know, I threw that song out of 'Yip Yip Yaphank' 22 years ago. Sounds better...
...found out last year and we were all pretty pissed off,” said Christopher J. Yip ’03. “I’m not very happy in general with having many more people in the House...
...mother and son sit down for dinner, half of their fish tank fills the bottom right of the screen, and a ghostly white fish swims in and out of the frame. As Hsaio-kang watches Truffaut, the TV set is, again, placed at bottom right. Chen and Cecilia Yip's heads line up diagonally on a pillow before they kiss. Even the chairs in Paris' Luxembourg Gardens have armrests that rise at 45 degrees from the slumping seats. Throughout, Tsai makes the eye follow as if looking at a painting, seldom giving the viewer the luxury of a single focal...