As it stands, Stritch's down-and-dirty, elegant, and imperious manner — she's a high-class broad in a lowdown business — has been captured in two documentaries of note: D. A. Pennebaker's 1970 "Original Cast Album: 'Company' " and Michael Houldey's 1985 " 'Follies' in Concert".
As it stands, Stritch's down-and-dirty, elegant, and imperious manner—she's a high-class broad in a lowdown business has been captured in two documentaries of note: D. A. Pennebaker's 1970 "Original Cast Album: 'Company' " and Michael Houldey's 1985 " 'Follies' in Concert".
The four others are "The Ocean Waif" by Alice Guy-Blache, one of the first directors of either sex, who had made more than 700 shorts and features by 1916; "49-17," a western satire by Ruth Ann Baldwin; "Eleanor's Catch" (1916), a two-reeler by Cleo Madison about still another young woman done in by a lowdown man; and "Hypocrites" (1915), written, directed and produced by Lois Weber.
Gene, Mat, and Helen Gleason, Huntington Park / Image by Eric Minh Swenson It was in Gleason that I found a lowdown, lewd, irreverent son of a bitch, whose passion was in Southern California sports and old-town Las Vegas gambling.
Mr. Decarnin has succeeded in drawing a new image for the house: a lowdown upscale look that appeals to the fast money, international set.
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It was a lowdown, sneaky move, and I admired Mr. Hudman and Mr. Ticer immensely for it.
There's a lowdown thrum to this thrust factory, one that growls at full throttle through the exhaust pipes but otherwise quietly stays in the background.
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Ms. Badu listed some of her aliases soon after she arrived onstage — Medulla Oblongata, Sarah Bellum, Analog Girl in a Digital World, Lowdown Loretta Brown — and those weren't nearly enough to sum her up.
Though antique string-section grandeur suffuses the album, it's done with self-conscious gusto and intelligence, and here and there, with daring arrangements: a saxophone choir in "Lowdown Groove," a brutal cacophony at the climax of "Strange Fruit," sung by Miche Braden.
