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" Frank Rich said the " if ever a project looked doomed, it was this one " ( referring to the " largely plotless " and dated musical upon which it was based, Forman's and Tharp's lack of movie musical experience, the " largely unproven cast " and the film's " grand budget "); in spite of these obstacles, " Hair succeeds at all levels — as lowdown fun, as affecting drama, as exhilarating spectacle and as provocative social observation.
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Sullivan had a healthy sense of humor about himself and permitted — even encouraged — impersonators such as John Byner, Frank Gorshin, Rich Little and especially Will Jordan to imitate him on his show.
At the forum, Falwell told homosexuals in attendance " I don't agree with your lifestyle, I will never agree with your lifestyle, but I love you " and added " anything that leaves the impression that we hate the sinner, we want to change that " He later commented to New York Times columnist Frank Rich that “ admittedly, evangelicals have not exhibited an ability to build a bond of friendship to the gay and lesbian community.
" In a June 13, 2009, article, New York Times columnist Frank Rich said of Voight's speech, in which Voight called to " bring an end to this false prophet Obama ," that: " This kind of rhetoric, with its pseudo-Scriptural call to action, is toxic.
They also hired Rich Frank of KCOP-TV and a member of the Operation Prime Time steering committee.
Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as " now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater ", his most famous works include ( as composer / lyricist ) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods.
On April 28, 2002, during the Sondheim Celebration at the Kennedy Center, Sondheim and Frank Rich of the New York Times held a " conversation ".
In 1976 Sondheim appeared, together with theatre critic Frank Rich, John Weidman ( book for Pacific Overtures ) and members of the original cast of Pacific Overtures in a television program titled " Anatomy of a Song.
In an interview with Frank Rich, Sondheim said that " the outsider feeling – somebody who people want to both kiss and kill – occurred quite early in my life.
Frank Rich in The New York Times noted that no federal legislation exists to protect the rights of gay Americans.
He began touring and opening for such artists as Charlie Rich, Martha and the Vandellas, and Frank Zappa.
* Frank Chadwick-A co-founder of Game Designers Workshop ( along with Loren Wiseman, Marc Miller, and Rich Banner ), one of the first major competitors to Avalon Hill, and himself a prolific wargame designer and innovator.
The New York Times critic Nora Sayre panned the often contradictory moral themes of the film, while the paper's Frank Rich called it " the same old stuff ".
The film was a major success ; Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic praised it as " crystalline cinema " and Frank Rich of Time described it as " cool, cinematic grace ".
A few days after Fitzgerald's death, New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote that in the Songbook series Fitzgerald " performed a cultural transaction as extraordinary as Elvis's contemporaneous integration of white and African-American soul.
Despite this success, which included numerous film award nominations, Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote in November 2008 that the film was frequently labeled as dated among liberals.
Time film critic Frank Rich wrote at the time that Allen's film is " tightly constructed, clearly focused intellectually, it is a prismatic portrait of a time and place that may be studied decades hence to see what kind of people we were ".
The show only received one negative review ; it was from Frank Rich of the New York Times, who called the production " likely to hold the attention of only the youngest and most obedient children " and " just dull.
They joined other Borland programmers including Chuck Batterman, Lajos Frank, Tanj Bennett, Rich Reppert and Roger Schlafly.
Frank Rich, who had called it " the funniest play written in my lifetime ", wrote that the film is " one of the worst ever made.
Cedar Grove was once home to Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook Ballroom, located on Route 23, which regularly hosted well-known bands and vocalists, including Buddy Rich, Glenn Miller, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, and Jo Stafford.
Rich and famous oilmen such as Marland, Frank Phillips, L. E. Phillips, Waite Phillips, and William G. Skelly stood in the shade of the Elm tree and bid in the auctions.
Frank Rich, in his review for The New York Times, wrote " In their scrupulous re-creation of the Fats Waller show that first electrified Broadway a decade ago, the original cast and creators have conjured the same between-the-wars dream world as before ...
Others who played with Dorsey were drummers Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Dave Tough saxophonist Tommy Reed, and singers Frank Sinatra, Jack Leonard, Edythe Wright, Jo Stafford with The Pied Pipers, Dick Haymes
In the New York Times newspaper article “ The Big City: Rich and Poor, Consumed by Consuming ” ( 1998 ), to remedy the social and psychological malaise that is conspicuous consumption, Frank proposed eliminating the personal income tax, and replacing it with a progressive tax upon the yearly sum of discretionary income spent on consumption of goods and services.
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When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.
Council president Frank SanAntonio said yesterday he may ask the council to formally request Town Solicitor Michael A. Abatuno to draft the ordinance.
`` You've told God, Frank '', he said.
He was a brilliant guy — but a little screwed up ," Frazetta has said ( from The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta, 2008 ).
The 20th-century historian Frank Stenton said of the Anglo-Saxon chronicler that " his inaccuracy is more than compensated by his preservation of the English title applied to these outstanding kings ".
Opened by Charlton Heston and introduced by Frank Sinatra, the ceremony was attended by so many Hollywood stars — said to be more than for any event in history — that one columnist wrote at the time that a bomb in the dining room would have brought about the end of the movie industry.
During his acceptance speech, Cagney lightly chastised impressionist Frank Gorshin, saying, " Oh, Frankie, just in passing, I never said ' MMMMmmmm, you dirty rat!
( CBS announcer Frank Gifford, who interviewed Lombardi prior to the game, said Lombardi was so nervous " he held onto my arm and he was shaking like a leaf.
Frank Capra's seven-film series Why We Fight is said to have been directly inspired by and America's response to Triumph of the Will.
He so stays in the film ... Napoleon once said that the art of the general is not strategy but knowing how to mold human nature ... Maybe that is all producer Frank McCarthy and Gen. Bradley, his chief advisor, are trying to say.
" Louis Gustave and Charles Strauss in Moslem and Frank ; or, Charles Martel and the rescue of Europe said " The victory gained was decisive and final, The torrent of Arab conquest was rolled back and Europe was rescued from the threatened yoke of the Saracens.
Frank Zappa admonished his audience that " we all wear a uniform "; the San Francisco clown / hippie Wavy Gravy said in 1987 that he could still see fellow-feeling in the eyes of Market Street businessmen who had dressed conventionally to survive.
Author Frank Herbert said in 1979, " The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes.
In addition, DiCaprio is said to be involved in the pre-production of Ridley Scott's project Brave New World, Marc Forster's The Chancellor Manuscript and the biopic Sinatra, a film about Frank Sinatra to be directed by Martin Scorsese.
According to legend, Tsuburaya's work on The War at Sea ... was so impressive that General MacArthur's film unit is said to have sold footage of the film to Frank Capra for use in Movietone newsreels as actual footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Virgil said later said that Frank had asked him if he had posted the handbills.
When Virgil said he had not, Frank said if Virgil had printed the handbills it was Frank's intention to kill Virgil.
Wyatt said in his deposition afterward that he had been temporarily acting as city marshal for Virgil the week before while Virgil was in Tucson for the Pete Spence and Frank Stilwell trial.
Angrily, Frank said he would not drink, and he and Billy left the saloon immediately to seek Tom.
Wyatt said that he saw Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury buying cartridges in Spangenberger's gun and hardware store on 4th Street filling their gun belts with cartridges.
While Ike Clanton was planning to leave town, Frank McLaury said he had decided to remain behind to take care of some business.
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