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...himself covering some pampered athletes of another species. As Wulf watched a Gordon setter and a Brittany spaniel finish one-two among sporting dogs, he found himself reliving childhood memories of Troy, New York, where his family kept two dogs--a Gordon setter named Beau and a Brittany named Brill. "They were like George and Lennie from Of Mice and Men," remembers Wulf. "Brill was a small but brilliant hunting dog. Beau was big and not very bright; he always seemed to be asking Brill to tell him about the rabbits." Like the Westminster winner, Wulf's report...
...album. Coincidentally, each film's sound track was developed the same way: a dozen or so pop composers--some veterans of the '60s like Bacharach, Lesley Gore (It's My Party) and King's ex-husband Gerry Goffin, others so young they weren't alive when the Brill Building was the Pentagon of pop--wrote tunes with the bounce and pang of the old stuff. As Gore, who helped write one number in Grace of My Heart, says of the old songs, "They were simple and direct. They got to the heart of the matter...
Instead of sitting in the Brill Building, the writers worked via fax and voice mail. Yet, Bacharach says, the aim is the same: "Despite the machinery, the finesse of modern record making, underneath it all, there has to be a yearning for a melody. You still need something to whistle...
...with him writes a lot of Top 10 hits, is based on the early career of Carole King, who with her husband Gerry Goffin composed some of the best hits--Will You Love Me Tomorrow?, One Fine Day, The Loco-Motion, A Natural Woman--ever to emerge from the Brill Building. Then Anders adds a fantasy Newlywed Game: What if King had married Brian Wilson (Matt Dillon) at his loopiest...
...credit, this Hamlet has beautifully integrated production elements, as Robert Brill's inspired sets lead the actors into a maze of inner and outer spaces, anticipating their every move. Brill accomplishes a minor coup when Hamlet kills Polonius behind a curtain that runs from floor to ceiling of the theatre. The enormous curtain drops to the ground, burying Polonius under...