Liza!
The career has been as fractious a roller-coaster ride—highlighted by heights and dips, punctuated by applause and thrills, accented by nerves and screams—as the life. Her critics and fans alike still have trouble pronouncing “Liza,” and the press still can’t spell “Minnelli.” But it’s written in stone: The one-word mention of her name Read More
Liza!
The career has been as fractious a roller-coaster ride—highlighted by heights and dips, punctuated by applause and thrills, accented by nerves and screams—as the life. Her critics and fans alike still have trouble pronouncing “Liza,” and the press still can’t spell “Minnelli.” But it’s written in stone: The one-word mention of her name will Read More
Years before the plague called reality TV, Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin wrote the ultimate celebrity challenge-a song entitled “Tchaikovsky (And Other Russians)”. Performed by an unknown chorus boy named Danny Kaye, the song made its historic debut in the 1941 Broadway musical, Lady in the Dark . It also made Danny Kaye a star. Read More
The Tedium on Mars
These are the finger-counting days when the movies are like the national elections. Maybe by Christmas something will relieve the gloom and we’ll have a winner, but don’t count on it. Nobody wants to go to Mars, but Hollywood hasn’t got the message. Red Planet is the second movie this year Read More
Sloane Eases On; A Little Liberace
Musically speaking, 1998 is off to a bang-up start. In today’s music, chaos reigns-all those screaming no-talents hawking and spitting and committing vocal sins they once might have gotten themselves arrested for, disturbing the peace and all that, all those bogus songs, pushing and dissonant, demanding attention or Read More
