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The Fabulous Baker Brothers Free FREE THE FABULOUS BAKER BROTHERS PDF Tom Herbert,Henry Herbert | 256 pages | 19 Jan 2012 | Headline Publishing Group | 9780755363650 | English | London, United Kingdom The Fabulous Baker Boys - Wikipedia It follows Jack and Frank Baker, two brothers struggling to make a living as lounge pianists in Seattle. Desperate, they take on a female singer, Susie Diamondwho revitalizes their careers, causing the brothers to re-examine their relationship with each other and with their music. The Fabulous Baker Boys, Jack and Frank, are brothers living in Seattle, making a living in lounges and music bars, their gimmick being that they play intricate jazz and pop-flavored duets on matching grand pianos. Frank handles the business aspect while Jack, single, attractive, and more talented as a player, feels disillusioned and bored with the often hackneyed material they use. Nonetheless, he is able to live a comfortable and responsibility-free existence because of Frank's management, sleeping where and with whom he pleases. Frank has a wife and family he adores, but Jack has no personal connections in The Fabulous Baker Brothers private life, other than Eddie, his soulful but aging Black Labrador, and Nina, the lonely child of a single mother living in his building, who walks Eddie and takes piano The Fabulous Baker Brothers from Jack. In all other respects, professionally and personally, Jack's life is a series of empty one-night stands. Now and again, he plays the challenging music he really cares about at a local jazz club. Concerned over the way they keep losing gigs, the Baker Boys hold auditions for a female singer to join the outfit, ending up with the beautiful but eccentric Susie Diamonda former escort with unusual charisma, a sultry singing voice, and emotional baggage she keeps well hidden most of the time. She arrives late for the audition, cockily irreverent of The Fabulous Baker Brothers professional reputation, and ticks Frank off by saying she has an intuition he will hire her anyway—but overcomes his reservations with her impassioned performance of " More Than You Know ", The Fabulous Baker Brothers Jack accompanying her, clearly more impressed with Susie's singing and Susie herself than he wants to admit. After a rocky start, the new act becomes unexpectedly successful, leading to bigger gigs and better money, but Frank is worried that Jack will ruin it by sleeping with Susie, having noted the growing attraction between the two, and being well aware of his brother's effect on the opposite sex. Jack and Susie circle each other warily from gig to gig, neither wanting to make the first move. In the meantime, the normally cool and emotionally distant Jack has a stark revelation of how fragile his world really is when Eddie has to spend the night at an animal hospital. He needs to have several teeth removed, a procedure that could easily kill the elderly dog, who is, Jack suddenly realizes, his only real friend in The Fabulous Baker Brothers world. The now sought-after trio and Eddie, still The Fabulous Baker Brothers from surgery head out of The Fabulous Baker Brothers to play an extended engagement at a grand old-style hotel. Frank has to leave suddenly, when one of his kids has a minor accident. Without him The Fabulous Baker Brothers act as chaperone, Susie and Jack give in to their feelings after playing a sizzling duet of " Makin' Whoopee " at the hotel's New Year's Eve celebration. Susie opens up to Jack about her past at the escort service, sleeping with clients simply because they were nice to her. She tries to tell him how good a player he is, but he The Fabulous Baker Brothers unwilling to admit his regrets to her. The romance is uneasy and off-kilter from the start, and does not last long. Back in Seattle, there is new tension within the act, as Frank senses what has happened between Jack and Susie. Both rebel against Frank's creative control, which has them performing crowd-pleasers like " Feelings " every night, instead of the jazz standards they prefer. After she spends the night with Jack at his apartment leading to an embarrassing encounter with NinaSusie reveals that at the hotel she got a lucrative offer from a man in the catfood business, to sing jingles for television, which would mean leaving The Baker Boys. She later takes the job when Jack, wounded she would even consider going and thinking about the conventioneers she used to know as an escortrefuses to admit how he feels, and acts like her departure is of no concern. As a parting shot, she tells him he is selling himself The Fabulous Baker Brothers the cheap as much as she ever did, by working a cheesy lounge act instead of developing his talent. Jack and Frank quarrel over Susie's departure and the increasingly embarrassing gigs Frank has been landing them. They get into a fight, with Jack nearly breaking Frank's fingers in frustrated rage, then storming off saying he cannot pretend anymore. Jack later blows up at Nina, driving her away—but goes after her to apologize—and learns that she is getting a new stepfather, so he will not be such a big part of her life anymore. Now ready to pursue the solo career his loyalty to Frank and delayed maturity had kept on the back burner, Jack goes to Frank's house to mend fences. Frank accepts Jack's decision to go his own way, and says he will switch to The Fabulous Baker Brothers piano lessons at home—in his mind, he was simply The Fabulous Baker Brothers his brother The Fabulous Baker Brothers the carefree swinging single life that he secretly envied, and had thought Jack wanted. They reminisce happily about the early days of their act, and play a riotous chorus of " You're Sixteen ", knowing now their connection is unbreakable, no matter what happens. Jack goes to see Susie, who is not enjoying the jingle business much, to apologize to her about the way he behaved. She is not ready to give him another chance, but they part as friends, Jack telling her he has an intuition they will see each other The Fabulous Baker Brothers echoing her earlier prediction that the The Fabulous Baker Brothers would hire her for the act. She walks off to her job, with him watching until she is nearly out of sight. Three years after the screenplay was first acquired for production by Paula Weinstein, the picture was approved by Gladden Entertainment and 20th Century Fox with Kloves directing. Jeff Bridges was Kloves's first choice for the role of Jack Baker. By the time I'd finished reading the script, however, I would have killed to have done it. The role eventually went to Michelle Pfeiffer. Kloves was quoted as saying that "Michelle is the icing on the cake. Her Susie Diamond is right on the mark--and she is a wonderful singer. Michelle is an actress with unlimited range. Her vocal coach, Sally Stevens, commended her dedication: "She was singing these songs The Fabulous Baker Brothers a very exposed way--no strings The Fabulous Baker Brothers lush orchestrations to hide behind, just a piano. She worked ten hours a day in the The Fabulous Baker Brothers and then took the tapes home with her to study them. Hammond dubbed Beau Bridges. Principal photography began on December 5, Pauline Kael in The New Yorker wrote of the film as a "romantic fantasy that has a forties- movie sultriness and an eighties movie-struck melancholy. Put them together and you have a movie in which eighties glamour is being defined. The wary way in which she [Susie] and Jack circle in on a relationship is one of the truest representations of modern romance that the modern screen has offered. The Fabulous Baker Boys is like a beloved movie from the glory days of Hollywood. It transports you. It's an American rhapsody. The The Fabulous Baker Brothers and atmosphere of the film were highly praised. The New York Times wrote that the "warm, rich hues of Michael Ballhaus 's cinematography contribute immeasurably to the film's invitingly intimate glow. It is a setting where actors can live and The Fabulous Baker Brothers like real people. Brooks 's Broadcast News and Mike Nichols 's Working Girlgives human skin a peachy glow, frames a seduction scene involving back-caressing and parted lips that's the next best thing to being there and, in what amounts to the visual zenith of the movie, paints a champagne-drinking balcony scene with appropriately moonlit The Fabulous Baker Brothers. Michelle Pfeiffer 's performance drew rave reviews from almost every The Fabulous Baker Brothers. The New York Times called her "as unexpected a choice for this musical bombshell as Jeff Bridges is for Jack, but, like him, she proves to be electrifyingly right Pfeiffer, draped across Jeff Bridges's piano and setting some new standard for cinematic slinkiness, performs in the above-mentioned New Year's Eve sequence with the camera gliding hypnotically around her, she just plain brings down the house. She also hits the spot in the film's certain-to-be-remembered highlight - a version of 'Makin' Whoopee' that she sings while crawling all over a piano in a blazing red dress. She's dynamite. Like the sun through a magnifying glass, she burns an image on the screen. Jeff Bridges and his brother, Beau Bridgeswere also acclaimed for their performances. Time thought that "the Bridges boys are better than fabulous in it - Jeff not quite falling over the line into unredeemable cynicism, Beau never succumbing to the pull of moral blandness.
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