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Bing Crosby was one of the very few new stars of the early talking pictures - we can't think of another - who hadn't previously been paid to talk. Most of the other imports to Hollywood had honed their verbal skills on the Broadway or vaudeville stage; reading dialogue was nothing new to them. Crosby had read only lyrics: he was a singer, part of Paul Whiteman's trio The Rhythm Boys. Who could even guess that, when the group broke up in 1930, Bing would be successful as a solo singer, let alone as a movie idol...
...three with Grant). Instead he took the role of Frank Elgin - a has-been musical-comedy performer whom drink has crushed into pulp - in George Seaton's film of Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl." Grace Kelly is his wife, ground down by drab devotion. William Holden is the Broadway director who wants to give him a last chance at stardom and self-respect...
...shootings. Brafman has a strong voice and speaks in a loud, aggressive manner - the same tone of voice you might use to, say, denounce a terrorist attack on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. When Brafman began his queries, the courtroom took on a kind of off-Broadway feeling, as if one was watching a performance instead of a legal proceeding. He tore into Fenderson's account of Puffy allegedly slipping in a gun in his waistband on the night of the shooting. "Wasn't [Combs] wearing a fur coat?" Brafman barked. Later Brafman added "You ever...
After the shock wore off, I wondered, why do I care? I don't know Tom and Nicole. The closest I ever got to Tom was on a phone interview. The closest I got to Nicole was in a Broadway theater. She was onstage naked. I was in a box seat, fully clothed as far as I recall...
...seedy characters gab about dogs and shoes and life's anguish, accompanied by offstage crashes, a chorus line of veiled lovelies and a guy toting a red flag. Not much about communism, but without Foreman, off-off-Broadway's grand old anarchist, life really would be empty...