I ORDERED a Greek salad, followed by cheesecake. She went for split-pea soup and a bagel, with a fountain Diet Coke. Jenny Lumet, told she could pick a place for lunch, chose the Metro Diner, on Broadway at 100th Street, near her home. ''I'm kind of a diner girl,'' she said. The Metro that day was full of people with a similar thought. I found her...
When the jazz singer Nnenna Freelon was a little girl, she recalled in her show, ''Lena: A Lovesome Thing,'' on Wednesday evening at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Lena Horne was ''held up as the standard of beauty and pride.'' Ms. Freelon doesn't sound much like Horne except in passing phrases that convey the attitude of regal hauteur that was a...
HEAT WAVE The Life and Career of Ethel Waters By Donald Bogle Illustrated. 624 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $26.99. Like Eddie (Rochester) Anderson in ''Cabin in the Sky,'' the 1943 movie-musical parable of temptation, most Americans seem constitutionally predisposed to choose Lena Horne over Ethel Waters -- that is, to prefer a model of...
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (30. juni 1917 - 9. maj 2010) var en amerikansk sanger og skuespillerinde.