Word: antonio
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...deluge: five new movie musicals. The big news is the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber Evita, a stage hit that Hollywood has wanted to film for nearly two decades. Alan Parker (Fame) finally got it done, with Madonna as Argentina's Material Girl, Jonathan Pryce as Juan Peron and Antonio Banderas as the narrator...
ACQUITTED. DEBRA L. MEEKS, 41, Air Force major; of sodomy; in San Antonio, Texas. Accused of having a two-year live-in relationship with civilian Pamela Dillard, Meeks refused to state her sexual orientation throughout the trial. Her lawyers argued that the case violated the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for homosexuals...
...rightfully criticized for their commercialism, but from the time the American delegation proceeded down the ramp, NBC went an hour without a commercial. Indeed, the ceremonies went by in a flash: the remarks by Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games president Billy Payne and International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch ("Atlanta, here we are!"), the proclamation ("I declare open the Games of Atlanta!") by President Clinton, the entrance of the Olympic flag, a tribute to Atlanta's Rev. Martin Luther King, the introduction of past Olympians...
Except in her music. Her first album, Toni Braxton, produced by R.-and-B. hitmakers Antonio ("L.A.") Reid and Kenny ("Babyface") Edmonds, swam against the tide. While other R.-and-B. singers were getting louder, brasher, naughtier, Braxton's songs were slower, heavier, laden with emotion. And they had an attitude. Her first hit, Love Shoulda Brought You Home, admonished a man who had been staying out too late; the song Best Friend (which Braxton co-wrote) is a barbed note to a boyfriend who had an affair with his lover's best friend...
...nonpareil heavyweight Felix Savon, will probably be the big winners, but they'll have to contend with the former Eastern Bloc teams (Romania, Bulgaria and Russia) that took half the gold medals at the last world championships. Americans can look for big things from stylish light heavyweight Antonio Tarver...