Bargain For Paradise

Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins play a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult “gentleman’s agree­ment” in this continental pre-Code comedy, freely adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. A risqué relationship story and a witty take on creative pursuits, the film concerns a commercial artist (Hopkins) unable—or unwilling—to choose between the equally dashing painter (Cooper) and playwright (March) she meets on a train en route to the City of Light. Design for Living is Lubitsch at his sexiest, an entertainment at once debonair and racy, featuring three stars at the height of their allure.

This anthology of The Divine One's greatest works of the late 1950s to early 1960s (1958-1962) includes more five-star performances than any chanteuse should be able to lay claim to. The anthology kicks off with the Basie Orchestra (sans Basie) "No Count Sarah", a date which simply skips nimbly from peak to peak beginning with 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes', progressing through' Darn That Dream', 'Just One of Those Things', to the improvised title track and my favorite 'Cheek To Cheek'. The album "Dreamy" is, in my view, the apogee of Romance while "The Divine One" runs the gamut of her musical palate. "Count Basie-Sarah Vaughan" is the successor to "No Count Sarah" and is in its selections superior, IMO.

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Hold the line on price in every transaction— from the leading expert on Value-Added Selling!
These days it seems like we’re always in a buyer’s market. But even at a time when the word value is used interchangeably with cheap and the Internet is a bargain hunter’s paradise, there are ways for sales professionals to regain the upper hand.