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	Torch song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love.
		The etymology comes from "Carrying a torch for him/her"; which means to long for a lost lover.
		A possible origin is that the singer (torch singers are almost exclusively female) sang in a sultry, jazzy way to bring out the sensual tones of the voice, thus resembling a smoldering torch...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Torch_song (185 words)

	Torch Song Trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein, running in New York City from June 10, 1982, to May 19, 1985 at the Little Theatre (now the Helen Hayes Theatre on West 44th Street).
		Each of the three acts tells a separate part of the life story of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing Jewish drag queen in New York City who starts the story with a soliloquy explaining his cynical disillusionment with love.
		At the end of the act, however, Alan is killed in a homophobic attack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Torch_Song_Trilogy (508 words)

	Torch Song Trilogy: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein Harvey Fierstein quick summary:
		Harvey fierstein (born june 6, 1954) is an american actor best known for his semi-autobiographical play and film torch song trilogy, which he wrote...
		A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited love....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/torch_song_trilogy.htm (1648 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Torch song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics).
		See also Cabaret Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue â€” a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance.
		Torch Song was a British synthpop and dance band of the early 1980s consisting of William Orbit, Laurie Mayer and Grant Gilbert.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Torch-song (869 words)

	Re: torch song
		The dictionary defines "torch song" as "a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments a lost love." Along with being too general, this definition omits what is perhaps the most obvious characteristic of torch songs: They are almost always sung by women.
		"Sing a torch song" is commonly used in Broadway late-places as a request for a ballad in commemoration of the lonesome state.
		The songs are pleasant parodies of Nashville, of torch songs and even of grand opera.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/19/messages/912.html (828 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review: Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
		"Torch Song Trilogy," based on a popular Broadway play by Harvey Fierstein, is an earnest, emotionally accurate, but seriously flawed drama.
		Many moments in "Torch Song Trilogy," do ring true, however, despite its faults, and I suspect it is largely due to Fierstein brilliant performance.
		"Torch Song Trilogy" is full of good intentions, and has a fair share of strong points, so it is especially disappointing that Fierstein hadn't changed some of the weaker elements in the screenplay.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/t/88_torchsong.htm (523 words)

	Torch Song
		But the torch happened to be coming through my neighborhood at the same time I happened to be going to work.
		The torch bearer came into the town square and was cheered by the crowd, the cloggers clogged, the mayor gave away the key to the city and posed for pictures.
		The torch, symbolically lit by the rays of the rising sun half a world away, in Olympia, then changing 10,000 hands across 42 states on its way to the Atlanta games, stirred something deeper than nationalism.
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	Torch Song: Olympic Theme Song Penned by Mason Graduate Student -- George Mason University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		While preparing some songs for studio production, she began looking through several folders of sketches, ran across the chorus, and thought it was worth finishing.
		I really felt the song would sell itself from there on out." She received the good news in May 2001 that her song had been selected as the torch relay theme.
		The song made its debut at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park and was played in 110 community celebrations along the torch relay route through 46 states.
	www.gmu.edu /alumni/spirit/spring02/torch.html (325 words)

	'Torch Song Trilogy' (R)
		"Torch Song Trilogy" opens with a close-up so tight you can see the hero's pores clog as he slathers on the pancake.
		Hurting on the inside, but torch singing on the outside, the camp chanteuse is striving for social acceptance in this belted-out adaptation of Harvey Fierstein's play.
		The odd thing about "Torch Song Trilogy" is that it has such a conservative moral.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/torchsongtrilogyrkempley_a0c9d7.htm (635 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Torch Song Trilogy
		Not his identity as a gay man, which is firmly cemented, but his identity as a man. He's shy and reserved on one hand, but expresses himself through his work in a drag review at a popular club.
		Torch Song Trilogy is based on a hugely successful Broadway play that Fierstein wrote and starred in.
		Torch Song Trilogy is found not guilty, but it is ordered to explain to the court what the deal was with the whole rabbit decoration theme.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/torchsongtrilogy.php (1395 words)

	Torch Song
		Torch Song is a somewhat over-the-top backstage drama with intermittent musical moments.
		Even though Torch Song looks like it was made on a low budget, the photography is great; Joan looks wonderful in Technicolor.
		I enjoyed Torch Song because it's entertaining, but I liked it more because of the backstory: it was Joan's return to MGM after almost ten years at Warner Brothers.
	www.joancrawfordbest.com /filmstorch.htm (851 words)

	Torch song eulogy - Salon
		We're supposed to feel that the Torch, the Condit and their sleaze-mates from the corporate Hall of Shame are no worse than the rest of us.
		Talk about eating your cake and having it too: The Torch wants us to see it in our hearts to grant him absolution without his having to repent for his transgressions.
		If the Torch hasn't burned his little fl book, turning it over to congressional investigators would be a true public service in sharp contrast to his showy fall on the sword.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/col/huff/2002/10/03/torch/index.html (895 words)

	Torch Song Trilogy
		On June 10,1982, all three plays were moved to Broadway for an evening called Torch Song Trilogy and history was made.
		Torch Song Trilogy has brought its writer and star, Harvey Fierstein, Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor in 1983.
		The most important and successful gay play since Boys in the Band, Torch Song Trilogy is hilarious, brilliant and moving in its surprising universality.
	www.snapproductions.com /torchsong.html (160 words)

	Torch Song Trilogy - Video Shopping Mall
		The stage version of Torch Song Trilogy, as its title suggests, consists of three self-contained one-act plays.
		Broderick was no stranger to Torch Song Trilogy, having played the part of David, Arnold's adopted son, in the 1981 stage version.
		Torch Song Trilogy and Video related products can be found by following the links on the left.
	mall.buy-online-shopping-malls.com /vhs-videos/vhs-video-6546.html (741 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Torch Song by S. K. Gray
		Torch songs were written for the express purpose of wringing every emotion out of a heart.
		And as good torch songs go, the one he had picked, for better or worse memories, had been their song.
		This was just a song, just another half stanza of notes and words well within her range.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook33664.htm (621 words)

	The Perception of Fish - official Fish site
		This is, finally, an album that shows Fish at the top of his game, one in which every song contributes to the whole.
		There are no bad tracks, and there are some songs here that are better than anything Fish has ever done.
		Songs like 'Moving Targets', 'The Rookie', 'Old Crow' and 'Numbers' groove along on nasty, tasty guitar riffs, Fish spitting and snarling his way through them like a wolverine.
	www.the-company.com (465 words)

	Wordwizard Clubhouse - torch song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The archetypical example of a torch singer was Edith Piaf (1914-63) and an example of a torch song would be her famous 'La Vie en Rose.'
		CARRY THE TORCH: Since at least 1927, "to carry the torch" (or "carry a torch" for someone) has meant to continue to love and pine for someone long after the object of affection has left the building and any reasonable hope of amorous success has passed.
		<1927 “‘Sing a TORCH SONG’ is commonly used in Broadway late~places as a request for a ballad in commemoration of the lonesome state.
	www.wordwizard.com /newnav/chforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17991 (1265 words)

	Torch Song
		All torch melting depends on the experienced eye of the operator to regulate temperature and metal flow.
		The ultimate goal with torch melting is complete burning, without getting the torch too hot (usually visible as a short, hard blue oxidizing flame) or too cool.
		Whenever the torch gets too hot or too cool, you create unwanted compounds such as copper oxide, or run into problems from the carbon in these hydrocarbon compounds.
	www.preciousmetalswest.com /torch_song.htm (2255 words)

	Re: torch song
		: : : I would guess that one reason for the demise of torch songs and singers is that the lament has become either passé or relegated to country music (same thing).
		: : It is a pun, the article is called "torch song" and it is about "fusion torch" - and invention that is connected with noclear power, and that was never implemented.
		: "Sing a torch song" is commonly used in Broadway late-places as a request for a ballad in commemoration of the lonesome state.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/19/messages/920.html (881 words)

	'Torch Song' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Song and dance numbers combined with Shakespearean text “encourage our drama students to express themselves artistically,” said instructor Sally Cates.
		Songs from Broadway musicals included in the show are “Chicago,” “Porgy and Bess,” “Aida,” “A Chorus Line,” “Cabaret” and “Brigadoon.”
		She said students have put a new interpretation on the songs while maintaining respect for the original lyrics.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/livingtoday/051208/torch.shtml (139 words)

	torch song - Articles about torch song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Torch Song Trilogy June 1982: the first Tony-winning smash to focus on gay lives, warts and all, opens the door for future gay projects and for out playwrights
		Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy was a theatrical phenomenon that defied all odds.
		With her smooth, smoky renditions of jazz standards by the likes of Duke Ellington and Irving Berlin, Diana Krall has for years been the unheralded voice of a generation--albeit one that came of ag...
	www.wordiq.com /article/torch+song.html (409 words)

	Torch Song Trilogy Summary & Essays - Harvey Fierstein
		Torch Song Trilogy is a play that straddles genres, existing as both a comedy and a melodrama.
		Torch Song Trilogy began as The International Stud, a one-act play that was produced Off-Off-Broadway in 1978.
		His reinforcement of the importance of love in all relationships, hetero and gay, served to counter the attacks against homosexuals as promiscuous pleasure seekers.
	www.enotes.com /torch-song (343 words)

	Cool Cinema Trash.com: Torch Song (1953)
		He expertly plays the piano as Jenny strikes her signature pose and sings the song "Follow Me" in which Crawford's own mannerisms and over-the-top interpretation of how a Broadway star should perform bring to mind all the subtlety of a drag queen's nightclub act.
		When one of her songs "Tenderly" is played on the hi-fi, Jenny can't help but sing along with the record and give a performance in her mother's living room.
		Torch Song not only marked Joan Crawford's return to MGM, but was also her first film in Technicolor.
	www.coolcinematrash.com /movies/torchsong.htm (1600 words)

	Torch Song Trilogy DVD at Video Universe
		Torch song is a movie that everyone should watch; gay, str8 or indifferent.
		Torch Song is 1 of those films that everyone should see gay, str8 or indifferent.
		This film along with Tales of the City rate as my best choices of Gay film making [even though neither Tales or Torch Song are available in the UK at the moment]and show the evolution of the Gay experience over a period of time.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/6683223/a/Torch+Song+Trilogy.htm (644 words)

	Torch Song Trilogy - Romance Movies
		It's "Torch Song Trilogy," the story of a man who's known he was gay since childhood and has been comfortable with that for just as long.
		"Torch" is a truly wonderful film; it is painfully real, constantly funny, and sweet without being sappy.
		The roles were played by the best actors for the job, which is evident through their stellar performances.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art22040.asp (369 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Torch Song Trilogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Torch Song Trilogy (1988) is the film version of the long-running, Tony Award-winning play by Harvey Fierstein.
		The story chronicles nine years in the life of Arnold (Fierstein), a gay female impersonator who is coming to terms with being gay, aging, monogamy, the desire to have children, and the ever present need for love.
		Torch Song Trilogy is a little dated, but overall it's a rich experience — due mostly to Fierstein's clever ear for dialogue and compassionate observations.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/t/torchsongtrilogy.q.shtml (390 words)

	Ruslana to carry the Olympic torch \| Eurovision Song Contest 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In her songs one can hear the singing of the heart, Ukrainian soul, a good taste and a wonderful voice.
		By winning the Eurovision Song Contest, Ruslana has made a significant contribution to the creation of a positive image for Ukraine in Europe, which can be compared with the best achievements at the Olympics.
		On another note the Romania song was in my view badly performed - not so much by the main singer but by her backing group.
	www.esctoday.com /news/read/2926 (1318 words)

	Theatre Mirror Reviews - "Torch Song Trilogy"
		The Footlight Club's "Torch Song" is, in kind terms, a disaster of a production (second only to the sinking of the Titanic) that unacceptably clocks in just shy of four hours.
		Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy" won a Tony award for best play in 1983 as well as a Drama Desk, so the Footlight Club can't blame this inadequate production on a weak script or flawed dramatic material.
		In a nutshell, "Torch Song" is a combination of three one act plays with an overlapping story that documents the life of drag queen, Arnold Beckoff (Ryan C. Pothier) and his on again/off again relationship with Ed Reiss (Joshua M. Kehrberg), a bisexual schoolteacher.
	www.theatermirror.com /tstaw.htm (1491 words)

	Jamie and The Magic Torch Song
		Torch Song Shop - Europe only - CDBaby - USA
		We recorded four tracks over the weekend 17/18 February and I have spent the last 3 weeks or so mixing and adding bits and pieces here and there.
		If you are interested in owning your own copy of the 'Jamie Doppelpack', copies will be made available for purchase at the next concert in Marlene on 27 April..
	www.magictorchsong.com (183 words)

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