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2017-08-09 14:15:16
First Actor To Play Godzilla, Haruo Nakajima, Dead At 88
"Nakajima played [the mutant dinosaur] in the 1954 original and 11 subsequent films, donning the suit that he said weighed about 220 pounds and wreaking havoc on model cities and rival monsters. But he began his career in samurai films, including a small role in Akira Kurosawa's legendary 1954 film Seven Samurai."
2013-02-02 01:45:28
[…] touting some ossified greatest hits collection. Instead, she picks and chooses from Gainsbourg's 200+ songs - always some favourites, always some surprises - and regularly switches her musical partners. For the past couple of years, Birkin has been working with a jazzy quartet of European-based Japanese musicians - piano, violin, drums and trumpet. It's a harmonious alliance of gentle souls, musically sensitive, the very opposite of rock'n'roll flash. The arrangements, by pianist Nobuyuki Nakajima, are laid-back, jazzy. They suited the pair of Gainsbourg's notorious classical 'borrowings' Birkin chose to sing: Jane B (Chopin's E minor Prelude no.28) and Baby Alone in Babylone (Brahms 3rd Symphony). Birkin is not a genetically gifted singer. She admitted as much after violinist Hoshiko Yamane expertly interleaved the rhythmically tricky exclamations into Comic Strip - something Birkin said neither she nor Brigitte Bardot (who recorded the song with […]
2012-03-10 03:02:00
[…] he isn't singing in the majors on a regular basis. A beautiful and brilliant lyric baritone, funny and charming presence, looks - he has it all, and he shone in this role. Heidi Moss Sali was a lovely Pamina, and caught the teen-aged angst and rebellion just right. Darron Flagg has a good voice and negotiated Tamino's music reasonably well; he was a funny stockbroker and managed the transformation to Sarastro's acolyte convincingly. Elyse Nakajima made an impressive Queen Starfire; Clifton Romig acted well but was a bit wobbly-voiced as her estranged husband Sarastro. Keith Perry was a sympathetic Moss, Lori Schulman a delightful Papapapagena. George Killingsworth ably filled the mostly-speaking role of Foxclaw (the Sprecher). Melody King, Kathleen Moss (no relation to Heidi Moss Sali), and Rebecca Krouner were characterful as the Three Ladies. Charlotte Khuner, Catherine Scanlon, and Sofia Chandler-Freed could not have been bettered as […]
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