Word: concert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first industry angels were Eugene Harvey and Seymour Flics, then concert promoters, now Whitney's zealous managers and jealous protectors. In 1981 the team devised a game plan: they would develop acting and modeling as adjuncts to the music. Soon Whitney was doing a Canada Dry commercial and TV's Silver Spoons and Gimme a Break. She had already been cutting classes at her private Catholic girls' school to model for the Click agency. She later switched to Wilhelmina and appeared in Glamour and Vogue. Meanwhile she was sharing club dates with Cissy. Finally, at 18, she was ready...
...Baby, maybe a movie version of Dreamgirls. Meanwhile, her family will keep Whitney well protected. Her brothers run interference for her on tour; Robyn offers support and palship; John promotes and shields the family star. Still, Dad must wonder when the cocoon becomes a cage. Last year, after a concert in London, Whitney joined the crew at the local Hippodrome. "I was nervous," he recalls. "At one point I spotted her on the dance floor. 'Guess what, Daddy,' she said, 'I've been dancing!' And she proceeded to dance until 4 in the morning. I almost cried, realizing that...
...number of videos they produce. Others have put a tighter rein on budgets, which average between $50,000 and $100,000 a clip. For all their artistic aspirations, rock videos are intended mainly as promotional tools; by that measure, a low-budget clip of the band in concert may do the job just as well as a more elaborate "concept" video. Says Video Director Wayne Isham: "What's good these days is what sells product...
...pretend to fob off the responsibility on the U.N., as Senator Pell proposes. And Pell is not alone. Presidential Candidate Michael Dukakis spoke for much of the Democratic Party when he expressed opposition to American use of "armed forces in the gulf unless it does so in concert with other nations, preferably under the aegis of the U.N. Security Council...
...back up its boast. "I know that country music is going out to a lot of kids," Travis says. "You see a lot of teenagers and even little kids who know the words to the songs." There still may not be an overabundance of youth at a typical country concert, but the music in the Nashville air has a youthful flair that embraces and reconciles the roots rock of Steve Earle, the delicate harmonies of the Judds, the lively lyrical byplay of the O'Kanes...