Word: garson
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...DIED. GARSON KANIN, 86, playwright and director whose Born Yesterday (1946 on stage, 1950 in film) is considered a comedy classic; in New York. With his wife, the actress Ruth Gordon, Kanin wrote the scripts for several of the more celebrated movie pairings of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, including Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952). He also claimed some credit for his brother Michael's screenplay for Woman of the Year...
...infectious. Several times he paused between songs to banter and joke with the audience, at one point asking the thronging masses to give all their names at once. As soon as the din died down, he responded: "Well, I think I got most of them." Stalwart, silent pianist Mike Garson was introduced as being "134 years...
Bowie was aided tremendously by the sheer skill of his backing musicians. The band-in Bowie's opinion, his best band in over two decades-has now been playing long enough together to develop a real sense of coherence and musical unity. Particular highlights included Mike Garson's short, jazz-inflected keyboard solos, and the startling firepower of Reeves Gabrels' guitar...
Would a machine be able to think about the question Can humans think? CHRYSTELLE GARSON Westmount, Quebec...
DIED. GREER GARSON, 92; Oscar-winning actress; in Dallas. Once described by Time as "a goddess sculptured in butterscotch," Garson specialized in playing noble, tender, poised women--"walking cathedrals," she called them--like Mrs. Chips in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and the title role in Mrs. Miniver, for which she won her Oscar. Born in Ireland, she graduated with honors from the University of London and became an actress against the wishes of her family. She was discovered in a play by MGM boss Louis B. Mayer and became that studio's premier star. Garson's third marriage, to Texas...