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...Sullen Girl; Erykah Badu imagining the life of a gangsta's girlfriend on her soulful Otherside of the Game. Other promising acts from this school are on the way. An advance copy of British trip-hop folkie Pauline Taylor's just-finished album indicates she is a blazing talent; Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter Kacy Crowley is another one to watch, judging by an early listen to her confident debut, Anchorless; and Chantal Kreviazuk's just-out Under These Rocks and Stones is also a charmer...
...fact, Hollywood has been Bacharach's biggest promoter. The songwriter serves as a veritable totem of retro-cool in Mike Meyer's Austin Powers, in which Bacharach does a cameo singing behind a candelabraed piano that sits atop a Las Vegas tourist bus. His music is featured even more prominently--even if he isn't--in the Julia Roberts romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding, providing for a younger generation the same kind of romantic charge, simultaneously nostalgic and bracingly fresh, that George Gershwin gave when he was rediscovered by the disco generation two decades ago in Woody Allen...
...AUSTIN: Tapes of Lyndon Johnson made in the summer of 1964 reveal a man who despite his successes, never really felt like he belonged out front. "The South is against me and the North is against me and the Negroes are against me and the press doesn't really have any affection for me," LBJ told associates on the tapes, newly released by Johnson's presidential library in Austin. "I don't think a white Southerner is the man to unite this nation in this hour." When it was pointed out that if he didn't run, Republican Barry Goldwater...
Matthews is as hollow as his fiction. In fact, both he and Austin seem more like sounding boards than characters capable of making their own music. Not so 17-year-old Larry and his delightfully blowsy Aunt Doris in Jealous, a finely tuned 58-page tale that immediately reminds us that Ford is the gifted novelist who wrote The Sportswriter and Independence...
...Unlike Austin and Matthews, Larry brings a fresh and unambivalent eye to experience. Unlike the other two novellas in this collection, Jealous never bogs down in the bottomless gender swamp. In fact, the trip with Aunt Doris reads like a first stop in what could have been (or might become) a rousing American road novel...