The grown-ups’ response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. 这一次大人们建议我别再画这些蟒蛇了,管它开着肚子还是合着,还是专心致志地学习...
Adel said it was reasonable for officers to conclude Whitaker, when coming out of his apartment with a gun in hand, meant to harm the officers. “Officer Cooke’s conclusion, while inaccurate in hindsight, was not unreasonable in the moment and was, therefore, not a crime,”...
The oldest child of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher (“a product of Hollywood inbreeding,” she once wrote), actress Carrie Fisher (October 21, 1956-December 27, 2016) made her film debut as a precocious teen opposite Warren Beatty in 1975’s “Shampoo.” But it was her r...
The series was nominated for more than forty awards, including ten Primetime Emmy Award and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one of each. Also very successful in the ratings, Who's the Boss? consistently ranked in the top ten in the final primetime ratings between the years of ...
Wrote the tune "Calum and Lindsay" named after his children. Retired in Edinburgh. The nickname came from the type of shoe polish that he used. Younger cousin of the other Cherry (Walter) Anderson.Anderson, Euan. (19?? - ) Scottish. Learned to play the pipes while a pupil at George ...
Richard Rodgers The Sound of Music, The King and I, South Pacific Prolific writer of show tunes who enjoyed fruitful collaborations with lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein. Rogers confected some of Hollywood's most enduring musicals, including "Oklahoma!" (1955), "The King and I" ...
When she wrote it was in order to provide a history of her times and an insight into what made her family so strange. Like many of her generation she did not write much about her own feelings and her humourous and optimistic nature does not really come through in her writing. I would...
A classic photo from a Byrds gig—that’s them on stage in the background—at Ciro’s on the Sunset Strip. It’s only 1965 and the Byrds are still singing Mr. Tambourine Man, but the wildness and abandon in this woman’s dancing (I first wrote chick’s but times have changed) more...
He wrote Tommy Steele's "Rock with the Caveman", which became the first British pop song to break into the American Top 40, and was the sole creator of the musical Oliver! (1960). With Oliver! and his work alongside theatre director Joan Littlewood at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, he ...
In that period he wrote three books and a good deal of poetry and in the process realized his own proclivity for fiction. He wrote his first short story (the first of the Tales) xii Foreword just after he had completed revising his dissertation for publication and was engaged in writing a...