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...AIDA Disney faces a "Lion King" problem - how can anything measure up? - but this kid-friendly version of the opera, with Elton John and Tim Rice replacing Verdi, has pleasures aplenty. Heather Headley is a knockout, and Bob Crowley's inventive sets will do until the next Julie Taymor comes along...
...Since then, Crosby's star has not disappeared, but it has dimmed. In "The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz," a standard reference, Crosby gets less space than his younger brother Bob, who fronted a Dixieland band in the '30s and beyond, and who may be the only bandleader of the time who could not play an instrument. Bing is hardly to be seen in Ken Burns' 19-hour documentary "Jazz," though he employed many jazz masters on his records and radio shows, and teamed with Louis Armstrong more often than any star except Bob Hope. Ask people over 40 to describe...
...Century" and the commentator who logs the most time on the recent Ken Burns project - to spend a decade researching and writing a 728-page study that takes Crosby only 15 years into a half-century career. (The book ends with "Road to Singapore," Bing's first movie with Bob Hope; volume two will cover the big movie years, "White Christmas," his second family and charges of son-whupping, which in interviews Giddins has minimized...
Whether they turn it into a sex-farce sitcom for seniors or a Hallmark Hall of Fame special, the romance between SUZANNE PLESHETTE and TOM POSTON seems ripe for the CBS development department. Pleshette, 64, who played BOB NEWHART's wife on The Bob Newhart Show, and Poston, 79, who played Newhart's handyman on Newhart, are getting married 30 years after they first met. Newhart couldn't be happier. "Not too long ago, Suzy lost her husband, and Tom lost his wife," says Newhart. "I would see Tom on a fairly regular basis, and he was just a fish...
...Gives first in-depth national interview to sports commentator Bob Costas on Costas' HBO talk show, where they discuss baseball...at length...