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DIRECTOR: CLINT EASTWOOD...
Euro Disney got mixed results from two architects named Antoine. Grumbach's Sequoia Lodge is a nontoxic Rocky Mountain high -- restful, woodsy, organic. Predock's Hotel Santa Fe, once you get past its drive-in-theater billboard of Clint Eastwood, looks as bleak as a Southwestern insane asylum. For anyone who wants to get suicidally depressed at Euro Disney, this cinder-block shantytown is the place to bunk...
...Things don't always work out all right in country songs," says Kevin Phillips, author of the 1990 book The Politics of the Rich and Poor. "What a perfect backdrop for a recession that is undercutting the American Dream." Clint Black's One More Payment is a classic hard-times complaint about the rent, the banker at the door, and a roof that is crumbling. But the current country songs also hurl Molotov cocktails at the upper classes and the system that favors them. Brooks succeeded last year in making a national barroom anthem out of Friends in Low Places...
...country heat has made it easier for some other voices, too, to break through. There is Clint Black, who is less showy than Brooks but pithier, kind of like a whistle-clean Merle Haggard. His 1989 hit single, A Better Man, was a true heartrender, a no-nonsense male confessional, and suggests that his new album, due in September, will be worth the wait. There are the Kentucky Headhunters, described by their rhythm guitarist Richard Young as "the scariest things in country music." The KenHeads blend whimsy, old-time picking and some refried hippie riffs with the dynamism...
Joining recent recipients Clint Eastwood (1991) and Kevin Costner (1990), Douglas added some flair to their hallowed ranks...