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PROBLEM: What happens when the one and only Bill Murray recites American literature and flexes his pipes on songs from the great American songbook  backed by three accomplished classical musicians at a packed Orchestra Hall?
âNew Worlds:  Bill Murray   Jan Vogler and Friendsâ was the name of the show the famed Wilmette-raised actor and comedian  along with cellist Jan Vogler  violinist Mira Wang and pianist Vanessa Perez  brought to Symphony Center on Tuesday night as part of a national tour in support of their new Decca Gold album of the same name.
 Murray  sang a little  danced a little  cracked a couple of jokes. The inveterate Cubs fan traded his tuxedo jacket for a Cubs windbreaker at the end  prompting a roar from audience members  one of whom had draped a Wrigley victory flag over the side of the platform that was put up on stage to accommodate extra seats.
The tone shifted from light to serious and back again.  Murray  sometimes recited over musical accompaniment; sometimes  his  recitations stood on their own. One selection merged into the next in a seamless  two-hour flow of spoken word  song and instrumental music. Like all highly skilled actors   Murray  is a virtuoso of tone and timing.  His  typically laid-back manner fools no one  for thereâs always a finely honed theatrical sensibility and command of craft peeking through.
Who could resist James Fenimore Cooperâs evocation of a pristine early 19th-century American woodland (from âThe Deerslayerâ)  as recited with all due wonderment by  Murray  over a movement from a Schubert piano trio?
Or  Murray âs thoughtful rendition  half-sung  half-spoken  of âJeanie with the Light-Brown Hair â a nostalgic slice of early America I have never heard so poignantly done as here?  Murray  may not have classically trained vocal technique  but  his  baritone is pleasant and musical and absolutely true to the words and the deep emotions they convey  and that was all that mattered.
There was so much else to savor all evening long. You havenât heard âIt Ainât Necessarily Soâ until youâve heard  Murray âs sassy  jazzy transformation of that beloved Gershwin classic. Nor are you likely to forget the gutsy intensity of feeling he brought to Van Morrisonâs soul standard âWhen Will I Ever Learn to Live in God.â
After that number   Murray  flung long-stemmed roses to the fans  who were up on their feet  loudly cheering the hometown favorite. âThanks for coming â itâs nice to be home â he told them  as he  Vogler  Wang and Perez waved their goodbyes.
If this is what it takes to sell light classical music and renew interest in neglected classics of American literature to a mass concert public  maybe  Murray  and friends are on to something. Long may their team flourish.
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SOLUTION: Bill Murray at Orchestra Hall is a show no one else could have done

PROBLEM: Comic strip artist Mort Walker  a World War II veteran who satirized the Army and tickled millions of newspaper readers with the antics of the lazy private "Beetle Bailey " died Saturday.  He  was 94.
 Walker  died at  his  home in Stamford  Connecticut  said Greg Walker  his eldest son and a collaborator. His father's advanced age was the cause of death  he said.
 Walker  began publishing cartoons at age 11 and was involved with more than a half-dozen comic strips in  his  career  including "Hi and Lois " ''Boner's Ark" and "Sam & Silo." But  he  found  his  greatest success drawing slacker Beetle   his  hot-tempered sergeant and the rest of the gang at fictional Camp Swampy for nearly 70 years.
The character that was to become  Beetle Bailey  made  his  debut as Spider in  Walker 's cartoons published by the Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s.  Walker  changed Spider's name and launched  "Beetle Bailey"  as a college humor strip in 1950.
At first the strip failed to attract readers and King Features Syndicate considered dropping it after just six months   Walker  said in a 2000 interview with The Associated Press. The syndicate suggested  Beetle  join the Army after the start of the Korean War   Walker  said.
"I was kind of against it because after World War II  Bill Mauldin and Sad Sack were fading away " he said. But his misgivings were overcome and  Beetle  "enlisted" in 1951.
 Walker  attributed the success of the strip to Beetle's indolence and reluctance to follow authority.
"Most people are sort of against authority "  he  said. "Here's  Beetle  always challenging authority. I think people relate to it."
 "Beetle Bailey"  led to spin-off comic strip "Hi and Lois " which  he  created with Dik Browne  in 1954. The premise was that  Beetle  went home on furlough to visit  his  sister Lois and brother-in-law Hi.
Fellow cartoonists remembered  Walker  on Saturday as a pleasant man who adored his fans. Bill Morrison  president of the National Cartoonists Society  called  Walker  the definition of "cartoonist" in a post on the society's website.
" He  lived and breathed the art every day of  his  life.  He  will be sorely missed by  his  friends in the NCS and by a world of comic strip fans " Morrison said.
Fellow cartoonist Mark Evanier said on his website that  Walker  was "delightful to be around and always willing to draw  Beetle  or Sarge for any of his fans. He sure had a lot of them."
"Beetle Bailey " which appeared in as many as 1 800 newspapers  sometimes sparked controversy. The Tokyo editions of the military newspaper Stars & Stripes dropped it in 1954 for fear that it would encourage disrespect of its officers. But ensuing media coverage spurred more than 100 newspapers to add the strip.
Shortly after President Bill Clinton took office   Walker  drew a strip suggesting that the draft be retroactive in order to send Clinton to Vietnam.  Walker  said  he  received hundreds of angry letters from Clinton supporters.
For years   Walker  drew Camp Swampy's highest-ranking officer  Gen. Amos Halftrack  ogling his secretary  Miss Buxley. Feminist groups claimed the strip made light of sexual harassment  and  Walker  said the syndicate wanted  him  to write out the lecherous general.
That wasn't feasible because the general was such a fixture in the strip   Greg Walker  said Saturday.  His  father solved the problem in 1997 by sending Halftrack to sensitivity training.

SOLUTION: ' Beetle Bailey' cartoonist Mort Walker dies at 94

PROBLEM: Back in 2015  then  Vice President Joe Biden  appeared on The Late Show and host Stephen Colbert peppered  him  with questions about whether  he ’d run for president in 2016. However   Biden  was still reeling from the death of  his  son  Beau  and  Biden  said that  he  was unable to commit “110 per cent” to the task of running for president  despite the fact that Beau had urged  him  to continue to serve.  Biden  returned to The Late Show on Monday night and Colbert was ready for  him . “I’m not gonna ask ” said Colbert  before immediately asking  Biden  if  he  planned to run in 2020.
As for that whole 2020 question   Biden  wouldn’t answer other than to say that “the country’s never been more divided  we need a unifier.”
 He  also provided an update on  his  thoughts on President Donald Trump.
When  Biden  was on the show back in 2015   Biden  suggested that the American public give Trump a shot  before judging  him . “Have we given  him  enough of a shot at this point?” Colbert asked.  Biden  said  he  reached  his  tipping point with Trump after  his  “deafening” during the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville  Va.  where neo-Nazis were chanting “the same exact bile” against Jews that the Nazis used in the 1930s in Germany and a protester was killed by a white supremacist. Biden said there is now “a battle for the soul of this country ” and called for Americans to say “enough is enough.”
They also discussed the risks of “normalizing” Trump’s behavior. “What do you think has changed about the presidency with him being President?” asked Colbert. “How will this influence future presidencies?”  Biden  replied  “God willing  this will go down as the single exception in American history.”
When Colbert pressed him about who such a unifier could be   Biden  didn’t give any specifics  but he said there’s a whole new generation of Democrats entering politics who are ready to step up.

SOLUTION:
Joe Biden Says This Was the Turning Point for Trump