Word: bebe
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...cast is nearly perfect. Bebe Neuwirth is a taut and tangy showstopper as Roxie's jailhouse rival; Joel Grey makes mousiness memorable as Roxie's husband; and James Naughton is commanding and funny as her lawyer. Only Reinking, starring as Roxie (a role she first played in 1977), falls short: her lithe body hasn't let her down, but her husky, quavering voice does. Yet it's barely a smudge on a show that doesn't just give us the old razzle-dazzle; it glows...
Thanks to Morrison's trailblazing success, black women are not only writing more; their books are being bought and read in droves. Bebe Moore Campbell, author of the best-selling Brothers and Sisters and Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad, just out in paperback, vividly remembers coming upon Morrison's first novel The Bluest Eye (1969): "When I finished that book, I had all the permission I needed to become a writer. Someone who looked like me had written a masterpiece." The megasuccessful Terry McMillan, author of the current best seller How Stella Got Her Groove Back...
Trying to remove the Pampers from a bebe with bib: "I love Mommy...
...word. White men fear that in its name they will lose their jobs and that Hillary Rodham Clinton herself will replace them with black, lesbian single mothers. Minorities worry that no matter how many degrees they have, their white colleagues may view them as underqualified beneficiaries of a quota. Bebe Moore Campbell's captivating new novel, Brothers and Sisters (Putnam; 476 pages; $22.95), takes the notion of diversity and scrapes away all the myths and fears with which it has become encrusted...
...recording of a South African choir that shows the influence of African-American music worldwide. More recent performers are featured as well, including the Soul Stirrers, the Staple Singers, Jessye Norman, Aretha Franklin and James Cleveland, all the way up to such contemporary neo-gospel acts as BeBe and CeCe Winans...