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Charles Walters was born in Pasadena, California.
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From the trolley scene in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's last dance on the silver screen (The Barkleys of Broadway, 1949) to Judy Garland's timeless, tuxedo-clad performance of "Get Happy" (Summer Stock, 1950), Charles Walters staged the iconic musical sequences of Hollywood's golden age. During his career, this Academy Award–nominated director and choreographer showcased the talents of stars such as Gene Kelly, Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds, and Frank Sinatra. However, despite his many critical and commercial triumphs, Walters's name often goes unrecognized today. In the first full-length biography of Walters, Brent Phillips chronicles the artist's career, from his days as a featured Broadway performer and protégé of theater legend Robert Alton to his successes at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He takes readers behind the scenes of many of the studio's most beloved musicals, including Easter Parade (1948), Lili (1953), High Society (1956), and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964). In addition, Phillips recounts Walters's associations with Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, and Gloria Swanson, examines the director's uncredited work on several films, including the blockbuster Gigi (1958), and discusses his contributions to musical theater and American popular culture. This revealing book also considers Walters's personal life and explores how he navigated the industry as an openly gay man. Drawing on unpublished oral histories, correspondence, and new interviews, this biography offers an entertaining and important new look at an exciting era in Hollywood history.
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Dr. Richard Olree believes that the key to the biological role of all trace minerals has been available to science for decades, but nobody realized it. Will his Standard Genetic Code Chart prove to be the Rosetta Stone of trace nutrients? Through sequencing the amino acids in the process of constructing proteins, Dr. Olree has traced all the elements to their participatory function in the life process. In this cutting-edge book, the connection is made between the physical, chemical and biological aspects of minerals and subatomic particles in the life process, and assignment is made of the specific mineral that governs each entry in the genetic code. This knowledge, based on peer-reviewed medical literature as well as research by forgotten innovators, suggests an end to the tyranny of pharmaceuticals. Each of the 64 sequences (or "codons") in the Standard Genetic Chart is discussed with an overlay of the mineral involved - its absence leading to degenerative disease; its presence ensuring that health is maintained. Dr Olree's genetic mineral chart overlaps the 64 codons that are now a part of "settled" science. This innovative book reveals a unique roadmap overlaying the body's deepest genetic need for specific minerals, classical chiropractic conditions, acupuncture meridians, and deficiency and disease indicators.
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In the summer of 1941, Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson ran for the U.S. Senate in a special election. He lost. It was the only political race LBJ ever lost, and he always claimed that W. Lee Pappy O'Daniel had stolen the office from him. In the summer of 1948, Johnson ran again for the Senate. This time his chief opponent in the Democratic primaries was former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson. After much counting and recounting of ballots, Johnson was declared the winner of the runoff, or second primary, by just eighty-seven votes out of millions cast, votes that Stevenson claimed Johnson bought in deep South Texas - the stomping grounds of George Parr, the Duke of Duval County. Joe Phipps signed on as a volunteer player in this summer stock production, taking a role as general aide and go-fer for the Congressman. Then a young World War II veteran with experience in radio broadcasting, Phipps did not imagine that he would assume a major part in an election that would change not only the face of Texas politics but the way campaigners were promoted then and the way campaigns would be prosecuted in the future. Not only were the short radio broadcasts Phipps produced innovative, but Johnson's method of campaigning was new to voters. Rather than concentrate on urban areas, Johnson acquired a helicopter - an exotic new flying object at the time - and took his message to people all across Texas. It may well have been the votes garnered by LBJ in the rural counties that kept him in the race and eventually sent him to the United States Senate. Much of the drama of the summer of '48 is well known and has been told many times by political historians and Johnson biographers. Unlike previouswriters, however, Joe Phipps was there for most of the hectic campaign, working closely with Lyndon Johnson, the consummate politician - complex and contradictory, yet a simple man - on a daily basis as aide and confidant. Phipps sat in radio studios with the candidate, flew in the helicopter on the stump, met with the Congressman in Johnson's home at Austin, and confided with him in hotel rooms on the road. Joe Phipps' narrative graphically exposes the human side of the pivotal events of the summer of '48.
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Charles Walters was born in Pasadena, California.
Educated at the University of Southern California, Walters was himself a dancer before becoming a director of stage musicals: Let’s Face It and Banjo Eyes in 1941.
Next year, he joined MGM as a choreographer and worked on Seven Days' Leave (Tim Whelan); Presenting Lily Mars ( Norman Taurog); Du Barry Was a Lady (Roy del Ruth) (in the stage version of which he had danced); Girl Crazy (Taurog); Best Foot Forward (Edward Buzzell); Broadway Rhythm ( del Ruth); Meet Me iit St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli); The Harvey Girls (George Sidney); Ziegfcld Follies ( Minnelli); and Summer Holiday (Rouben Mamoulian), before making his debut as a director. His choreography credits stand up rather better than his own films. Whatever the overall view' of the directors concerned, Walters deserves some credit for the cakewalk in St. Louis, the swirling movements of “The Atcheson, Topeka’’ in Harvey Girls, and the Fourth of July sequence in Summer Holiday.
Walters made tuneful, smart, and colorful movies, and if his musicals are essentially innocuous, that selves to underline the greater artistic character in Donen and Minnelli. Easter Parade is an uneasy alliance of Astaire and Garland, w'hile The Barkleys of Broadway and Summer Stock are not always successful concealments of the age or anxiety of their leading players. In the 1950s, his range gradually widened. Lili was a curiously melancholy film with songs, w'hile Torch Song was a key film in making Joan Crawfords camp fire manifest. Walters then developed his comic talent with The Tender Trap; High Society; Don't Go Near the Water; and Ask Am/ Girl. Two Loves was another unexpected venture into romantic drama; Billy Rose’s Jumbo w'as as exuberant as ever; and Walk, Don’t Run a very funny last bow' from Cary Grant. WayTie Wang, b. Hong Kong, 1949,1975: Man, a Woman and a Killer 1981: Chan Is Missing. 1985: Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart. 1987: Slam Dance. 1989: Eat a Boicl of Tea; Life Is Cheap . . . But Toilet Paper Is Expensive. 1993: The Joy Luck Club. 1995: Smoke; Blue in the Face (codirected with Paul Auster). 1997: Chinese Box. 1999: Anywhere but Here. 2001: The Center of the World.
At the end of 1993, no serious moviegoer could he in doubt about where new things were happening. It was Asia, and more particularly China and Hong Kong, countries that may enjoy a uniquely momentary relationship that could also form a vital hinge for our futures. Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, John Woo, and Hon Ilsiao-hsien are in this hook. And one ol the best films I’ve seen in recent years is Stanley
Wang was horn in Hong Kong as his upper-middle-class parents fled by way of Tsingtao and Shanghai. He was raised in the British colony, and educated at Catholic schools. He came to America to go to college: Foothill College and the California College of Arts and Crafts. Once graduated, he went back to Hong Kong and was able to work as a director on the TV series, a soap opera, Below the Lion Rock
He returned to San Francisco to make Chan Is Missing for $22,000, a whimsical mystery story set in Chinatown. Better by quite a hit was Dim Sum (still his best film), a tender, meditative story about family, once again set in San Francisco. But Wang was already uncertain about where lie belonged. (He has been married twice: to the American scenarist Terrel Seltzer and to Hong Kong TV actress Cora Miao.) Can he make films lor Asians living in America? Can he make American pictures? Slam Dance was his most complete failure. How many times can he count on the providential availability of rich material like Amv Tan 's The Joy Luck Club? Things have not worked out well. With a script by Paul Auster, Smoke was a modestlv entertaining picture about a crosssection of life. But when the same team improvised Blue iu the Face, afterwards, the results were dismal. Equally, Chinese Box, set in the last days of British Hong Kong, turned into a dreary and implausible romance with two uneasy leads Jeremy Irons and Gong Li. Anywhere but Here then reduced the Mona Simpson novel to sweet pap. But nothing was as bad, as clumsy, or as naive as the alleged eroticism of The Center of the World.
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