An unforgettable portrait of an exuberant yet troubled artist who so enriched the American songbook ldquo;Blue Moon; rdquo; ldquo;Where or When; rdquo; ldquo;The Lady Is a Tramp;rdquo; ldquo;My Funny Valentine;rdquo; ldquo;Isnrsquo;t It Romantic?;rdquo; ldquo;My Romance;rdquo; ldquo;Therersquo;s a Small Hotel;rdquo; ldquo;Falling in Love with Love;rdquo; ldquo;Bewitched; Bothered and Bewilderedrdquo;mdash;lyricist Lorenz Hart; together with composer Richard Rodgers; wrote some of the most memorable songs ever created. More than half a century after their collaboration ended; Rodgers Hart songs are indispensable to the repertoire of nightclub singers everywhere. A Ship Without a Sail is the story of the complicated man who was Lorenz Hart. His lyrics spin with brilliance and sophistication; yet at their core is an unmistakable wistfulness. The sweetness of ldquo;My Romancerdquo; and ldquo;Isnrsquo;t It Romantic?rdquo; is unsurpassed in American song; but Hartrsquo;s lyrics could also be cynical; funny; ironic. He brought a unique wit and elegance to popular music. Larry Hart and Richard Rodgers wrote approximately thirty Broadway musicals and dozens of songs for Hollywood films. At least four of their musicalsmdash;On Your Toes; Babes in Arms; The Boys from Syracuse; and Pal Joeymdash; have become classics. But despite their prodigious collaboration; Rodgers and Hart were an odd couple. Rodgers was precise; punctual; heterosexual; handsome; and eager to be accepted by Society. Hart was barely five feet tall; alcoholic; homosexual; and more comfortable in a bar or restaurant than anywhere else. Terrified of solitude; he invariably threw the party and picked up the check. His lyrics are all the more remarkable considering that he never sustained a romantic relationship; living his entire life with his mother; who died only months before he died at age forty-eight. Gary Marmorsteinrsquo;s revelatory biography includes many of the lyrics that define Hartrsquo;s legacymdash;those clever; touching stanzas that still move us or make us laugh.
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Review
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Pretty much unreadable and irrelevantBy A photographerThis is a short article that appeared in a regional magazine of Southern culture. Being a Southerner by birth and a lover of William Egglestons photography for years. I was happy to part with 99 cents for the digital edition of the article. Unfortunately. that 99 cents would have been better spent on a package of chewing gum (if you can still get Wrigleys for 99 cents) because a pack of gum has more to offer than this insipid article.Writer Ben Child immediately brings Susan Sontags "On Photography" into the article and starts to interpret Egglestons photos from the book "The Democratic Forest" within Post Modern hogwash. The writer completely fails to understand any of the Eggleston work described and proceeds to coat every mentioned image with an irrelevant. meandering interpretation. Child equates the location notations of Egglestons photos with some deeper meaning and interpretation of the South and its association with everything from slavery to petroleum companies.Eggleston does not usually give titles to his photos. He only provides the location of the photo and a date. Child projects the location notation into something it is not--a distilled commentary by Eggleston on the place itself. This is not just a misinterpretation of Egglestons meaning. it is ignorance on every level of the artists work and it negates the basis of the entire essay.This article is unreadable and irrelevant with the only good thing about it being its brevity. Do yourself a favor and avoid it. Go chew a stick of Juicy Fruit instead.
