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...many as 50 musicals might open each year; now the typical number is five. Performers thus have few opportunities to be employed, let alone become stars. Nobody these days graduates from Broadway musicals to mainstream celebrity, as Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, Julie Andrews, Streisand and dozens of others did. Why would any young person would want to be part of this antique, dead-end genre? It's like dreaming of becoming a hat blocker or a Yiddish scholar. What kid in the hinterlands would even know that a clear, crisp Broadway vocal style exists, when "American Idol" teaches that...
...1970s, Stein worked as a speechwriter and lawyer for the presidential administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. (He is described as “crying uncontrollably” on Nixon’s last day in office in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s book The Final Days.) After leaving the White House, he shifted his focus to writing; Stein has published novels, penned screenplays and worked extensively in opinion journalism. As a conservative political pundit, Stein has written for many major publications, including as an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal...
...think he is one of the most youthful members of our class today with his energy, his stamina, and his interest in the world,” Shapiro says. “I can’t imagine Bob retiring...
...fellow who realizes, perhaps more quickly than Von Trier, that all art has its rules and that the stranger the rules, the more fun in following and subverting them. Leth's Cuban segment is a suave and colorful abstraction; the cartoon (made in collaboration with Waking Life co-director Bob Sabiston) is a handsomely rendered restatement of his original film. He does so well that Von Trier becomes increasingly exasperated. "You made a great film," he says after seeing one segment, "but not the one I wanted. I want you to make a bad film...
...take on Halliburton unless it's accompanied by a laughtrack. Also, Cosby's comments deriding non-standard English seemed particularly off-base. Without non-traditional language, we wouldn't have Public Enemy rapping "Don't Believe The Hype," Diana Ross singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," or Bob Marley declaring he had "So Much Things to Say." Without slang, we wouldn't have the blues poems of Langston Hughes, or some of the patois-infused verse of Derek Walcott...