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...pace with the times by adding what he describes as a moodier "jazz and blues" sound. But he's having a hard time keeping out the fun. At a recent recording session in Bombay, he still looked like a cartoon king, decked out in a black turban with sequined band, gold bracelets and chains, and a bright red designer shirt. ("I want the fans to look at Daler Mehndi like a maharajah," Mehndi explains.) He still has the same spring-soled bounce and huge smile. And, in the studio, he's clearly enjoying the music as much as ever...
...Char carried with him a videotape, which TIME has seen. The tape, which shows the life of a small band of Hmong, is deeply disturbing. The first footage-dated June 19, 2003-shows images of an emaciated baby. A girl cradles him in her arms, trying to feed him cassava roots crushed into a paste. Another child lies limp on the floor, her belly bloated from hunger. Their mother, unable to produce breast milk, was, says Va Char, out in the jungle searching for food. Outside the hut lies another child, too weak too pull himself out of the dirt...
...footage shot, according to Va Char and Ka Ying Yang, one of the Hmong band, on May 19, 2004, that is most dramatic. The film shows what Va Char says are the dead bodies of five young Hmong in the deep jungle. They are the victims, say Va Char and Ka Ying, of an ambush by Lao government troops on the Hmong-an ambush that Va Char says he watched while hiding in the jungle by the side of a path...
...were more disappointing. Alice Cooper announced last week that rockers shouldn't get involved in politics. And ZZ Top's manager informed me that although the group is being paid to play an event in New York City this week that a lot of G.O.P. delegates will attend, the band members have different political opinions, although they all are pro-leg. Charlie Daniels, while backing Bush, told me, "I don't go with either party," and that he's a big Jimmy Carter fan and hasn't yet committed to taking the G.O.P. up on a request to play...
DIED. NOBLE (THIN MAN) WATTS, 78, blues and jazz saxophonist whose booming tenor influenced music legends from King Curtis to Bruce Springsteen sideman Clarence Clemons; in Deland, Fla. In the 1950s he led the house band at boxer Sugar Ray Robinson's New York City lounge and went on rock-'n'-roll tours with Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis. He also released a string of hit singles, including Hard Times (the Slop...