Re: Great performers, lesser roles (Re: JENNIE)

robert armstrong wrote:
> Tour included Vietnam: I read at the time that when she arrived the
> soldiers riding with her sang "Foxhole Mary is the girl I love..." Hard
> to imagine a bunch of nineteen-year-olds in the mid-late 1960s breaking
> into show tunes spontaneously,

Not at all. Those kids would have grown up with "South Pacific" in the 
home collection, and many would have remembered Mad Magazine's

    Sout'side Louie is da town's top hood.
    Sout'side Louie is da town's top hood.
    He kills people like a top hood should,
       So don't get in his way!

-- etc. I was in a summer alumni "South Pacific" at my high school, 
myself, in 1969.
-- 
John W. Kennedy
  "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and 
Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. 
The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being 
corrected."
   -- G. K. Chesterton