Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...humbug to Jay Cocks...
...only be horrified at what Broadway might do to Lolita. At any rate, this time Nabokov decided not to be a party to the adaptation himself. He waived script approval, though he did retain veto power over the choice of the adapter and composer. As it happened, Librettist Alan Jay Lerner (My Fair Lady, Coco) was at that very moment inquiring about Lolita. Nabokov, who had never seen a Lerner musical, listened to some of the original-cast albums, met him, and was satisfied. "Mr. Lerner," he said, "is most talented and an excellent classicist. If you have to make...
...second period was long and slow, but it was a crowd-pleaser. Eleven penalties were called, and at times there were only seven skaters on the ice. The only goal in the period came with 27 seconds left. Cooch Owen fed center Jay Riley on a power play, and Riley crammed in the shot from the right side...
...Tell why!" says Leonard Bernstein. . . . Lenny is on the move. As more than one person in this room knows, Lenny treasures "the art of conversation." He treasures it, monopolizes it, conglomerates it, like a Jay Gould, an Onassis, a Cornfeld of Conversation. Anyone who has spent a three-day weekend with Lenny in the country, by the shore, or captive on some lonesome cay in the Windward islands knows that feeling- the alternating spells of adrenal stimulation and insulin coma as the Great Interrupter, the Village Explainer, the champion of Mental Jotto, the Free Analyst, Mr. Let's Find...
...Jay Cocks...