Archive of entries posted on 16th November 2003

Tin Pan Alley Goes West

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JeanNine’s post title inspired this musical choice. George and Ira Gershwin in Hollywood. There are a lot of great songs included in this two-disc set, including Fascinatin’ Rhythm, S’Wonderful, Shall We Dance, and Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off. The liner notes contain some inside-Hollywod gossip of the time, including a highly-opinionated indictment of the …

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Upscale Scam

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“We are a team of venture capitalists /project finance consultants who, a couple of years ago, were assembled by our various Governments to form a “Tenders Committee” established for the provision of financial consultation services…” [snip] “It was believed that since we would be located outside our countries we would be able to utilize and …

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