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Next week the American Lung Association will give its Hackademy Award to Sissy Spacek and In the Bedroom for using Marlboros throughout the film. Dishonorable Mentions will go to Charlie's Angels and Save the Last Dance--smoke-filled movies aimed at adolescents. "Teens imitate onscreen behavior," says Doran. And it's not enough to make the good guy a nonsmoker because "bad guys are cool...
...pairs-skating fiasco was the right one. Both teams had been done an injustice. Although Sale and Pelletier earned the gold, it would have been a miscarriage of justice to take it away from the Russians after it had been presented to them. It was a wise call to award a medal to each team. Figure skating is an art. That's why I watch. But something needs to be done about the manner in which it is judged to avoid disputes in the future. JOHN P. FARRIS Alamo, Texas
Wrapping around the block, the mainly nine-to-five, thirty-something crowd entered Avalon to the Phish-meets-Blind Melon-meets-the Pogues sound of opening band Carbon Leaf. Carbon Leaf are the only unsigned band ever to perform at the American Music Awards, where they won an award for Best New Music, beating out some 1,000 other bands. Featuring among other things a mandolin and several tin whistles, the group is obviously influenced by Great Big Sea and they were a fitting and exhilerating opening band, whetting the crowd’s appetite. By the time lead singer...
...Ashbery. A contributor and member of the executive board of The Harvard Advocate, Ashbery composed one of his best-known poems, “Some Trees,” while still an undergraduate. Since his graduation and his selection as Class Poet, Ashbery has won nearly every prestigious poetry award in the nation, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for his 1975 volume Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But accolades aside, Ashbery remains one of the most important poets today for his renovation of poetic forms, constant self...
...radio last summer, Lord persuaded her to relocate to New England and uses her own gigs to showcase Davis’ talent. She takes pride in the fact that Davis, who had never played outside of Michigan when they first met, is now up for a Boston Music Award. (Modest as always, Lord fails to mention her own nomination.) When Lord dragged her 21-year-old discovery on stage for an encore at a recent show, Davis treated the audience to an a cappella rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” She sold...