Now 72, without his once-lustrous blond curls, he sounds croaky in The Boxer, coughs during the solo tune Perfect Moment and seems unusually vulnerable.
Anne Fletcher directed "The Proposal" for Disney, while the studio's once-lustrous division, Miramax Films, continued on its death march without any help from female directors.
"We take so much for granted," he added, "but there's a tremendous amount of history" in devices once so lustrous.
It is perched on a small portion of the Hampstead stage, which has become once again, in Edward Hall's lustrous first season, an essential stage.
Its rich mahogany wainscoting, pocket doors and monumental fireplace, relieved of layers of grime and varnish, once again exude a startlingly bright shade of lustrous red.
And everywhere I looked, all across the mountains and the plains, I saw grass of a kind you see only perhaps once in a generation, so thick and lustrous that it looks as though it had the texture of a beaver pelt.
The advent of the perfectly lustrous, round cultured pearl made the once-precious orbs lose much of their luster, and by the 1950s they seemed absolutely priggish.
We started to see more of them, frenziedly hunting for insects along the base of the sea wall: and for once we were above them, which meant that their lustrous golden crests were exquisitely visible, catching the sunlight.
