Alice Cooper

Tim Curry, It, TV, 1989.    Cooper sounded an inspired idea for the evil clown, Pennywise.  Except, of course, with him aboard the 30th of Stephen King’s staggering 313 screen credits  would have become The Alice Cooper Show.  Tim  Curry almost left the two-parter, worrying about too many hours in make-up as he’d suffered as Darkness …
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Alicia Keys

Rosario Dawson, 25th Hour, 2001.     Director Spike Lee thought of Alicia for Naturelle Riviera, the lover of Edward Norton – examining his life during  the day before  before going to jail for eight years Zoe Saldana, The Terminal, 2004.     Although chased by Spielberg and Halle Berry for films, the singer started …
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Allan Jones

Nelson Eddy, Naughty Marietta, 1934.       With one big MGM hit behind her – The Merry Widow – McDonald started behaving like her other self, The Iron Butterfly, and the soprano made it clear that she wanted Jones as her next partner. Impossible!  He was having having A Night at the Opera with …
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