Re: More of the Bush 'Family Values'

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From: Amy
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 18:45

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Jeffrey E. Salzberg <salzberg@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.16c46c7d1ced2da9896cb@news.verizon.net>...
> In article <3c5a92f3.108605416@news.ev1.net>, montep@email.com says...
> > It became so prevalent
> > in the 1950's that there was a public outcry, so much so that the
> > juvenile deliquents in Congress even held hearings.
> 
> The congress members were adult delinquents.
> 
> > As too your noting that Bernsteins 'Westside Story' was based on Romeo
> > and Juliet: yep that is true, but Bernstein in updating it used the
> > street gangs of New York as representing the feuding families.  He
> > could have used the Mafia families, but at that time they had little
> > box office appeal.
> 
> Bernstein wrote the music; you should give at least some of the plot 
> credit to Arthur Laurents (libretto), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and 
> Jerome Robbins (choreography).

Most folks failed to recognize that the choreography in Michael
Jackson's Beat Its Video came from Jerome Robbins' West Side Story
choreography.  Specifically, the beginning song "When You're a Jet"
combined with the "I like to be in America".

Amy

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Subject: Re: More of the Bush  'Family Values'
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