Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein on February 24, 1947) is a British-born American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, and author of plays, novels, and stories. He is widely known for his number one pop hit "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" (1979/1980) and the song "Him", which reached the number 6 position on the Billboard Hot 100 U.S. pop chart in 1980. He is also known for his 1985 Tony Award-winning musical Drood (originally The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and his 2007 Drama Desk Award-winning book for the Broadway musical Curtains, and for his television series Remember WENN.
Holmes was born David Goldstein in Northwich, Cheshire, England. His father, Leonard Eliot Goldstein, was a United States Army warrant officer and bandleader. His mother, Gwendolen Mary (nee Pynn), was English, and both were musical. Holmes has dual British and American citizenship. The family moved when Holmes was six years old to the northern New York City suburb of Nanuet, New York, where Holmes grew up and attended nearby Nyack High School and then the Manhattan School of Music (majoring in clarinet). Holmes' brother, Richard, is an opera singer based in New York City and is the principal lyric baritone of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, sings roles with regional opera companies, such as Glimmerglass Opera, Lake George, and Virginia Opera, among others, and has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera.
Partners in Crime may refer to:
Partners in Crime is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on NBC during the 1984-85 television season. NBC cancelled the show after 13 episodes on December 29, 1984.
It was screened overseas as 50/50 to avoid confusion with the 1983 British series of the same name (which was also shown on ITV in the UK).
The series starred Lynda Carter as Carole Stanwyck and Loni Anderson as Sydney Kovack, two women with little in common except sharing Raymond as an ex-husband. When Raymond winds up murdered, Carole and Sydney set out to find his killer and eventually decide to run the detective agency Raymond has left them. They were assisted in their efforts by Raymond's assistant (Walter Olkewicz), Raymond's mother (Eileen Heckart), and Lt. Vronsky (Leo Rossi).
Partners in Crime is a 1928 American comedy silent film directed by Frank R. Strayer and written by George Marion Jr., Grover Jones and Gilbert Pratt. The film stars Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Mary Brian, William Powell, Jack Luden, Arthur Housman and Albert Roccardi. The film was released on March 17, 1928, by Paramount Pictures. A print of the film exists in the Library of Congress film archive.
She's under-age and she's underweight
And she's one month hooked and she's two months late.
She comes from Wyoming and he named her Desiree.
She hit New York like a farm-fresh egg
Hits a frying pan. She's too proud to beg
So she works on the sidewalk; he administrates her pay.
She calls him Swagger 'cause of his hat.
He adpoted her in three seconds flat
By the bus station doorway where he found her half-
alive.
He is her family, and in return,
He beats up on her and takes all she can earn
And she needs him so badly, losing him she'd never
survive.
Him and her,
Me and you,
We do it to each other whatever we do.
Hand in hand,
Arm in arm,
It's always been the two of us doin' us harm.
It's the same deal every time:
We're all of us partners in crime.
She is a buyer for Bloomingdale's,
He's division head of commercial sales.
They met at the office - odds we one to one they'd
meet.
Work is the great aphrodisiac,
It's that nine-to-five gets 'em in the sack:
Afernoons at the office, evenings at the health
retreat.
And all day long he just balls her out
Bout some shipment due on the air freight route,
But when they leave the office, guess who gets the
upper hand?
She's into power, he's into pain,
And beneath her heel, he will long remain
And he needs her so badly, loves it when she takes
command
Him and her,
Me and you,
We do it to each other whatever we do.
Hand in hand,
Arm in arm,
It's always been the two of us doin' us harm.
It's the same deal every time:
We're all of us partners in crime.
If there's a heaven, if there's a hell,
It's made up of those who we love so well,
And we make hell or heaven as we do when we're alive.
Two people meet and they fix their deal
And they get what they deserve and they want they way
they feel
And we need love so badly, losing it we'd never
survive.
Him and her,
Me and you,
We do it to each other whatever we do.
Hand in hand,
Arm in arm,
It's always been the two of us doin' us harm.
It's the same deal every time: