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...ALICIA KEYS TAKES THE FIFTH...
More daunting than deciding what to wear to the Grammys is figuring out what to say the fifth time in a single evening you have been called to collect one. Such was the plight of ALICIA KEYS, who after running through the requisite urgings to "think outside the box" and "believe in yourself" in her early speeches, admitted to being at a loss for words when accepting her final award. The success of the R.-and-B. newcomer, and the irresistible ways her name could be used in headlines (KEYS TO SUCCESS, KEYS TO VICTORY, etc.), made it easy...
...Beautiful Mind CRITICISM Where to begin? In the grand tradition of sanitized biopics, the film about genius mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. omits his illegitimate child and his alleged liaisons with men, as well as his divorce from and remarriage to Alicia Nash, who helps him battle schizophrenia. RESPONSE Scriptwriter Akiva Goldsman says the 'architecture' of Nash's life mattered more...
...Fascinated, I stuck around for songs by Bob Dylan and Alicia Keys, and with each song, grew more and more excited, my mind reeling. This is it, I thought to myself. I'm finally hip! What could possibly have happened to me, I mused, to spark such a sea change? Did I win some cosmic lottery of cool? Have I been particularly good since last year's Grammys...
Carey, who no doubt considers herself a more serious artist than Spears and ’NSYNC, can look elsewhere in the industry for confirmation of this argument. With her sophisticated and distinct Songs in A Minor, Alicia Keys materialized unexpectedly to release one of last year’s most successful albums. No Lolita-inspired appearance on MTV was called for; the music sold itself. A brief look at the rest of the Billboard 200 proves the point; whether it’s country, hip hop, rap or rock, the music inevitably transcends, or betrays, whatever image the artist...