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...Jimmy Cliff is quite possibly the greatest living reggae artist. He credits his own work with helping to shape the genre during its infancy in the late '60s and early '70s, and the soundtrack from his 1972 film The Harder They Come, which has become a cult classic, established him as a prominent figure in the music world. Dubbed the "Reggae Ambassador," Cliff is as close as you could come to representing the heritage and tradition of reggae through a single artist...
With that being said, it seems unfortunate that Cliff's Boston performance took place at the Roxy...
There's comfort in the reliability, the seeming permanence of her presence. The story has been told many times. Ellis Amburn tells it again in The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: The Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor (Cliff Street Books/HarperCollins), and it is still sort of riveting--amazing trashiness and unforgivable self-indulgence redeemed by a sense of humor and a fierce refusal to succumb. What used to be called sex goddesses made their living by enacting a travesty of sex. Marilyn Monroe played wriggling, dumb-blond comedy, and ended in tragedy. Taylor has got through...
What if Abby from "Dear Abby" married Cliff from Cliff's Notes? What if somebody spiked Chicken Soup for the Soul with Harvard's Core Curriculum? What if a hapless humanities major condensed his four-year, $120,000 liberal arts education into a 100-page, $9.95 self-help manual...
...story has been told often. Ellis Amburn tells it again in "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: The Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor" (Cliff Street Books/HarperCollins, 352 pages, $25). It is still sort of riveting, in an epically trashy...