New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
At “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” you’re mostly just waiting for the next song to come along, and more often than not when it does, you’re disappointed.
watch movies online for free full movie downloads (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
#1 TUBEMOTION.COM : Full Movie Directed by Michael Curtiz Produced by Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner Written by Irving Berlin Casey Robinson Claude Binyon Starring George Murphy Joan Leslie George Tobias Alan Hale Kate Smith Ronald Reagan Victor Moore Music by Ray Heindorf Max Steiner Cinematography Bert Glennon Sol Polito Editing by George Amy Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Release...
CoreEcon (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I wrote an op-ed a few months ago about David Galenson’s work on creative life cycles in art, poetry, novel-writing, movie-making and architecture. Now he’s turned his hand to pop music. Abstract below. Innovators: Songwriters (gated link, sorry) David Galenson Irving Berlin and Cole [...]
Andrew Leigh (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I wrote an op-ed a few months ago about David Galenson’s work on creative life cycles in art, poetry, novel-writing, movie-making and architecture. Now he’s turned his hand to pop music. Abstract below. Innovators: Songwriters (gated link, sorry) David Galenson Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were [...]
BestCovery (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
A bright splash of holiday cheer, Irving Berlin's White Christmas is a stage version of the classic 1954 Bing Crosby film. The plot is basically the same: two GIs (Brian D'Arcy James and Jeffry Denman in the Bing and Danny Kaye roles) become a song-and-dance team after World War II, run into a couple of dames (Anastasia Barzee and Meredith Patterson in the Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen...
The Daily Blague (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
If you know a singer who can take a bunch of songs by such diverse creative talents as Anton Webern, Charles Ives, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, and Irving Berlin, and fashion a program that makes them sound as though they were all written not only at the same time but in the same rooming house as well, [...]
Metroblogging DC (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... to play Sandy (played by Belle the dog.) Toby’s also has a Baltimore location that is putting on Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Disney’s Mulan Imagination Stage November 25, 2009 – January 10, 2010 This ain’t Disney on Ice. The 1998 film is now available in musical theatre format over at the Imagination Stage in Bethesda, MD. The show is only playing weekends during it’s run but...
Phillyist (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... 21-December 13. Tickets The Matchmaker - Find me a find. . . November 27-December 13. Tickets Irving Berlin's White Christmas - Not to be confused with anyone else's White Christmas. November 24- December 6. Tickets The Wizard of Oz - Follow the Yellow Brick Road. November 24- January 10. Tickets Continuing Almost, Maine - Vermont or New Hampshire. Through November 22. Ticket info...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Johnny Mercer didn’t linger in Savannah—as a teenager he stowed away on a ship to New York and the bright lights—but a lot of Savannah lingered in him. To mark his centenary, Knopf has produced the latest in its series of lavish, handsome coffee-table “Complete Lyrics.” Mercer’s predecessors in the set are Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein—the Broadway...
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... Boston Herald columnist Michael Graham , who mocked this idea and coined the word Swasti-Claus. Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”? “Who knew that had a hidden message?” Graham wrote. Visions of goose-stepping reindeer now dance in my head. Just the fact that so many people now equate Christmas trees and Santa Claus with Christianity tells you how silly...
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... by a Jew. I speak, of course, of “ White Christmas ,” written by the son and grandson of cantors, Irving Berlin, born Israel Baline in eastern Belarus, the man also responsible for that springtime favorite, “ Easter Parade.” While Irving Berlin holds the title as author of the bestselling song (and Christmas song) of all time, another Jewish musician, saxophonist Kenny...
