Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Sunday, and was still producing books, songs and impudent opinions at an exhausting rate. But this longtime talker will be remembered - and damnit, kids, remember this - as the creator of "The Tonight Show." Emerging from free-form comedy radio in the early '50s, Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen, the son of vaudevillians, became the father of the modern talk show...
...cheap, because none of the tunes are particularly well known. For the seeker of hidden Jones gems, of course, this is catnip. And there are several, including this treasure. Recorded in 1961, it was written by Dallas Frazier, the Bakersfield cotton picker turned songwriter ("There Goes My Everything," "The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp") who is one of Jones' favorites. (Later in the '60s he would record an album of Frazier tunes...
...late at night, or someone whose heart it would be advisable to break. While she sang some breathtakingly beautiful slower songs-such as the dignified "Domine Deus" from Gloria, the serious "Non ti Lusinghi la Crudeltade," Lucio's aria from Tito Manilo, and the sublime aria of Irene, "Sposa son Disprezzata," from Bajaset-it was in the dark, angry arias of fierce battles and even fiercer love that her full vocal range was given the most expression...
...History teems with a rich underground life - magic premonitions, sly recurrences, what Schlesinger calls "the circularity of things." Invisible wires vibrate between the dimensions of public and private. Schlesinger is 83 now, a distinguished historian who (speaking of circularity) is the son of another distinguished historian named Arthur Schlesinger, from whom he inherited a familiar cyclical hypothesis of American history, the idea of alternating radicalism and conservatism...
...that is bound to make realists queasy) by the real-life story of a man named Carl Brashear, who is played by Cuba Gooding Jr., the film is feverish in its desire to reduce his experiences to a compendium of clichés. Carl is, to begin with, the son of a black sharecropper. He joins the Navy in 1948, when the military is officially desegregated yet still confines men of his race to the galley. But he sees Navy divers being heroic and decides to join their ranks...