Jazz musicians, actors and thinkers regularly turn up to grace the tiny stage in this backstreet haunt.
Though the institute has important alliances with high-level jazz musicians, actors and members of the Clinton administration, who all attend the event, the momentum of the competition seems to have slid.
POLLAK THEATER, MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY Danny Aiello, jazz singer and actor.
In 1946, Boris Vian — novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter, jazz trumpeter, screenwriter, actor, and general scourge of anyone failing to have enough fun in Paris in the… Last year, Dan Halpern chronicled Kinky Friedman's bid for the governor's seat in Texas.
In 1946, Boris Vian — novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter, jazz trumpeter, screenwriter, actor, and general scourge of anyone failing to have enough fun in Paris in the postwar era — came to New York.
By Dan Halpern In 1946, Boris Vian — novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter, jazz trumpeter, screenwriter, actor, and general scourge of anyone failing to have enough fun in Paris in the postwar era — came to New York.
(I have an affinity for musical numbers because of my past-life as a musical theater actor! Jazz hands!) The video element was added later in the process.
Other well-known names associated with Irvington include Julius LaRosa, the singer; Bob James, the jazz musician; the actors Debra Winger and her husband Arliss Howard; and the choreographer Peter Martins.
But The Cosby Show not only reinvented the African American television family (frequently featuring prominent black artists, jazz musicians, and actors in the process); it also established a successful formula for family-centred comedy in general.
Nor is it because he has many prominent fans, although on any given night at Cajun you might see Mr. Maltin or the cartoonist R. Crumb or the director Mel Brooks or any one of the number of jazz writers, filmmakers, actors, radio personalities and other time-travelers who make up much of the Nighthawks' regular clientele.
