Word: concertizing
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...onward rolled the merry caravan, through more press conferences and high jinks, by train to Washington, D.C., where the lads played a concert at the Coliseum and partied at the British Embassy, back to New York City, then by plane to Miami, where a second appearance was scheduled on the Ed Sullivan Show, this time live from the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach...
...Gandalf type, Belichick has a wild side, sort of: he's a fan of the band Bon Jovi. At a concert, the coach will stand for hours in driving rain, hands clapping, feet tapping. Says Jon Bon Jovi: "The guy has as much fun as he can without falling down. He's so self-deprecating. I'll congratulate him on a good job, and he'll say, 'Yeah, right, it's no big deal,' and I'm like, 'Christ, Bill, take a bow once in a while...
WILLIE NELSON had better hope country radio treats old guys better than chicks. When Dixie Chicks front woman Natalie Maines maligned President Bush at a London concert last year, stations boycotted the trio and told fans to trash its CDs. Now country's beloved braided grandpappy has penned a ballad criticizing the war in Iraq, called What Ever Happened to Peace on Earth. With lyrics like "How much oil is one human life worth?" and "How much is a liar's word worth?," the tune is only Nelson's second protest song--the first was about Vietnam. Asked...
...music, her boldness was not just a sensation but an affront. If Madonna was the Material Girl, Anita Mui Yim-fong was the Bad Girl. That was the title of her 1985 hit song (which was briefly banned from radio for its raunchy lyrics) and best-selling album. In concert, Mui was a strutting, scowling presence, exuding sexuality like a visual and aural musk. She didn't simply command the stage; she commandeered it. She set attendance records with concert series in 1987 and 1991, and her 40-plus albums sold more than 10 million copies...
...vocal authority and concert-stage charisma served Mui well when she made films. She lent coherence and gravity to such doomed characters as Fleur, the ghost lover of Leslie Cheung in Stanley Kwan's Rouge (for which she won the 1989 Hong Kong Film Award for best actress), and a Chinese spy in Eddie Fong's The Last Princess of Manchuria. In the latter, she played the real-life title character Kawashima Yoshiko, who spied for the Japanese during the occupation, and Mui was cold steel personified. She slapped men's faces, spat out her scorn at those who would...