Word: moo
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...John Woo or a Chow Yun-fat who can make the crossover to the Hollywood big leagues, but its industry is getting noticed. "These are very sophisticated filmmakers," says Dede Nickerson, who heads Asian acquisitions and co-productions at Miramax, which recently bought the martial arts fantasy Bi Chun Moo (Sky-Flying Martial Art). "It is a very strong emerging market...
...true. But Crosby's early delivery has even more insistent echoes of Al Jolson's, with its declamatory style and its tendency to end on an orgasmic high note (though Bing tended to moo his glissandi, where Jolson went "mwaaa"). Apparently skeptical of the appeal of his natural baritone, he forced it up into the familiar tenor range. It took a while for him to realize that the bu-bu-bu- boos were original, natural and, to his widening audience, deeply satisfying. It was also wonderfully adaptable to the musical genres he would investigate for the rest of his career...