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Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.
I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.
The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.
I worked at Bergdorf Goodman doing interior decoration.
I feel like part of me will die when John Goodman dies.
My natural self is John Goodman. If I relaxed, I'd be him.
John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
If you have John Goodman in your movie, you want to use him as much as possible.
I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.
Kris Kristofferson and Steve Goodman were the two most unselfish people I ever met.
I do duets with folks like Randy Goodman, Aaron Neville, Bryan Adams, people like that.
I'm working really hard to get the clarinet out of that hole, that Benny Goodman thing.
My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.'
I love Glenn Gould. Max Steiner. John Williams. Louis Prima. Benny Goodman. Miles Davis. John Philip Sousa.
I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
There is no question that international tourism is on the rise - we see it at Bergdorf Goodman; we see it in Miami.
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.
As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
John Goodman is like the Jackie Chan of acting. Any prop that you put in front of him, he's going to take advantage of it in some peculiar way.
It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
It's a real honor and dream come true for me to be part of something as awesome as NBC's 'Community,' working with such comic legends as John Goodman and Chevy Chase.
Bergdorf Goodman is positioned at the very top of the luxury pyramid, and I think that as we go through this next phase of renovation, we're going to elevate it even further.
When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
I'm old enough to have lived through a time when Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and others died so people of color could vote.
In Chicago, anything that you're doing, the community gives it value. Every little improv show, every scrappy reading, and every lead on a Goodman mainstage. It's all a promising opportunity for a young actor.
It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe not every song, but writers from Benny Goodman to Lieber & Stoller to Neil Diamond all kept offices there.
I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.
My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter Niro the jazz pianist. I loved international music: Irish music, Mexican music. I love the different colours that they all have.
Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.
I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz' category. I got Benny Goodman records and Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, and that kind of stuff. I really was not a jazz guy at all, but I knew some of those names.
The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.