But he hasn't mined fatherhood for memorable material.
These welcome interludes contain the most memorable material in the book.
And they come up with similarly memorable material too, showing a flair for high-energy silliness with flashes of darkness that reminds you a bit of The League Of Gentlemen.
But last week's release of "Spy: The Funny Years," from Miramax Books, an anthology of the satirical magazine's more memorable material, has prompted another round of chattering about its lingering influence.
He then launched into a set of his most memorable material, including "Aquele Abraço," a samba written as a farewell to Brazil while under house arrest in 1969, and "Back in Bahia,"a jubilant song that celebrated his return in 1972.
Over time Mr. Shire has provided memorable material to some of musical theater's most insightful female singers, and the latest recipient is a young spitfire named Brittney Lee Hamilton, who plays the writer's prim but libidinous graduate assistant and enlivens several songs, particularly the charming courtship duet "Like".
Desafinado (see the clip above) was to be Jazz Samba's most iconic tune, but the album – almost all of which was composed by Brazilians – glowed with memorable material, including Jobim's and Newton Mendonça's Samba de Una Nota So (One Note Samba), the shimmering Bahia, and the wistful Samba Triste.
Their pairing resulted in some of Mellencamp's least commercial and most memorable material to date ("Jena" declared "Take your nooses down;" "Longest Days" lamented, "Sometimes you get sick and you don't get better/life is short, even in its longest days").
Amber is a force all her own, with some of the most memorable material from their breakthrough album on the hit song "Stillness is the Move" which was welcomed to huge cheers as the band's encore last night (her recent collaboration with Major Lazer is a must to check out by the way). .
Among the documentary's memorable archival material are film clips from the 1920's of rural blacks and whites winding through intriguingly similar foot-shuffling dances, of the Black Bottom as performed by whites in chorus lines and on dance floors of the 1930's, of an early audition by a solemn young Judith Jamison and of an exhilarating and difficult modern-day Dunham class.
