Robert Preston Remembered (Happy Birthday!)
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Trouble in River City
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Robert Preston Remembered (Happy Birthday!)
Sort by Britannica Blog (Free subscription) - 06/08/2009
Robert Preston was born June 8, 1918, and died in 1987. He is best known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in the Music Man , as seen in this classic clip of Preston singing about "Trouble in River City." But I remember him more for his role as a homosexual in Victor/Victoria , a film that can best be described as a gender-bender. American films couldn’t tackle such subjects during the Golden...
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Pardon the musical interludes folks, but there's...
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Pardon the musical interludes folks, but there's trouble... ...right here in River City.... ...with a capital "T", which rhymes with "C", and that stands for "Crime Cameras" : Finding 1. The MOT (Mayor's Office of Technology) used subcontracts to evade open competition for professional service contracts. Finding 2. The City failed to observe fundamental rules for accountability and transparency in...
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The New Friendster
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If you're as sick of John McCain saying "My friends" as I am, this might help . Excerpt: McCain falls neatly into line: Roughly every generation since FDR, a candidate resurrects "my friends." But while used in its first few decades by good or great orators, it's notable that in the last half-century it's been exclusively resorted to by the worst orators in our presidential races. What happened to...
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My Friends
Sort by The Tin Man (Free subscription) - 09/01/2008
Why can’t McCain stop saying “My friends”? [I]n the last half-century it’s been exclusively resorted to by the worst orators in our presidential races. What happened to change the phrase’s status in our language after Eisenhower’s 1956 speech? I have my own unprovable pet theory: It’s because the following year saw The Music Man debut on Broadway. [...]