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...makings of pop immortality: overnight stardom, singing Walkin' After Midnight on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts TV show; a string of pop and country hits (Crazy, She's Got You, I Fall to Pieces and the peerless heart crusher, Sweet Dreams); a rowdy domestic life; and the all-important early, violent death, in a plane crash when she was just 30. But Patsy Cline also had the goods: this woman could sing. Her bold contralto caught the pain and truth of a lyric without ever getting histrionic. "Oh, Lord," she famously said, "I sing just like I hurt inside...
...with the also deceased Jim Reeves) and the stately 1985 biopic Sweet Dreams, with Jessica Lange as Patsy. Now the singer has become a legend that won't die. There's Patsy Cline: The Birth of a Star (Razor & Tie records), an audio collection of her TV appearances with Godfrey. A stage show, Always...Patsy Cline, played for two years in Nashville, Tennessee. The star of Always, Mandy Barnett, has just released her own album of Cline-inflected tunes. And for weeks the hottest country CD on Billboard's pop charts has been Blue, in which 13-year-old Texas...
Carswell crossed the finish line at 31:18, second among ICAA competitors and first in the Ivy League. Godfrey Siamusiye (30-09) of Arkansas smoked the field, followed by ICAA champion Mark Carroll...
...Arthur Godfrey programs were variety shows centered on the folksy Godfrey, a performer known for his way with a ukulele, and once celebrated regulars like singer Julius LaRosa...
...Cellent'' [Cinema, Feb. 27], devastatingly illustrates the debasement of currency in talent and beauty of today's actresses compared with their counterparts of the 1930s and '40s. Can the dim-bulb performance of Marisa Tomei in Only You (1994) stand up to Carole Lombard's luminosity in My Man Godfrey (1936)? How can Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Drew Barrymore compete with Rita Hayworth's Gilda, Gene Tierney's Laura, Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa in Casablanca and Merle Oberon's Cathy in Wuthering Heights? It's the same twentysomething age group, but these actresses had more than...