"Kevin and I needed to take a professional break for a lot of reasons," she said.
But perhaps Mr. Murphy's biggest professional break came in the late 1970s, when he composed four songs he hoped to sell to a commercial music library.
He got his first major professional break in December , 1942 when he was assigned to the London bureau of United Press (later U.P.I).
She got her first professional break the next year, touring in an appalling Al Jolson revue, then in "Hot From Harlem," a showcase for acrobats, comedians and a soubrette named Shirley.
A big professional break came from Al Pacino, who helped cast her in a 2006 stage production of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" in Los Angeles and then directed her in his film version, "Wilde Salome".
Daisy/David's alter-ego, Melinda, is no longer a love-crossed English beauty from the 18th century but a feisty big-band singer from the early 1940s in search of a professional break.
And if the solution was a bit too neat (as it might have been for Eric and Tami after she got her big professional break in Philadelphia) it nonetheless felt right, and romantic.
Gormé, who started performing when she was three years old, began her career as a big-band singer but got her professional break (1953) on television as a regular on Steve Allen's Tonight! (later The Tonight Show).
Wednesday, during a record-release party for the disc jockey Little Louie Vega, Raymond Valentine, 29, a professional break dancer known as Fyness, was wearing cutoff sweat pants and kneepads.
In what police described as a "very professional break-in", four computers containing the last cut of the film, titled simply Khodorkovsky, were removed from Cyril Tuschi's premises.
