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NAME: Wayne "Slayed 'em in Vegas" Newton D.O.B.: 4/3/42 OCCUPATION: smartly clad crooner BEST PUNCH: Locked Orlando out of the Branson, Mo., theater at which they both performed and that they once co-owned, alleging that Orlando owed him $2 million...
Veteran country crooner Strait is like that old reliable pickup truck parked on your gravel driveway, the one that starts every time you turn the ignition key, without fail, no matter how cold a morning it is. His new album is straight Strait, traditional my-heart's-been-broke country, without frills or filler. The lyrics revel in comfortably familiar country contradiction: "I ain't missin' you/ That's a lie, and that's the truth," he sings on one track. This is a short CD--in typically spare Strait fashion, there are just 10 songs--but that...
...catchy songs--a reasonable wish--then he or she will be sorely disappointed. The few interesting moments, such as the charming first minute of "I'm Lost Without You," are almost completely obscured by the avalanche of boring ones. Also, after five or six songs, Colin James' annoying forties-crooner imitation becomes utterly intolerable. This CD may inspire some people to destroy it and others to fall asleep, but only the most swing-starved to dance...
...soon as the Federal Bureau of Insinuation let loose its lurid 1,300-page scandal sheet on Frank Sinatra last week, an anxious populace began asking itself the agonizing question: "Does this mean I have to reassess my position on the legendary swinging blue-eyed crooner from Hoboken, N.J., who embodied popular music and indeed pop culture in the latter half of the 20th century while swaggering about obnoxiously with his dissolute lackeys, or can I just bag it and catch a few hours of sleep and then go to work in the morning just as if nothing earthshaking...
Nerdy Mike is a wannabe nightclub crooner. Wallflower Marcia still lives with her parents. Marcia catches Mike's act; they fall for each other and seem headed for happily ever after until Marcia discovers Mike gobbling up fresh frog roadkill. Not your average boy-meets-girl story, off-Broadway's Duet! is a sweetly loopy send-up of '50s Hollywood cliches about love. Wittily weaving such pop culture totems as Hula Hoops and the Ink Spots into a cautionary tale, it's both hip and corny, ironic and romantic. And seriously funny...