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Another kind of agenda is advanced by Danilo Perez's Central Avenue (Impulse!), one of the fall's most passionate and enjoyable albums. Perez wants to broaden the Latin jazz palette beyond Cuba to embrace the entire hemisphere. And why stop there? In one cut, the 32-year-old pianist works in motifs from his native Panama as well as Brazil, Cuba, the Middle East (via Spain) and, thanks to the contributions of a tabla player, India. Perez sees a pendulum effect at work: after a period of retrenchment, jazz, as it often has been in the past...
...they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams can become sullen and morose in a place decorated in grand color by number style where a person's every wish is fulfilled? Cuba Gooding, Jr. breathes some life into the story. His enery actually recalls some of Williams early comedic work, and serves as a constant reminder of what Williams lacks in What Dreams May Come. Jeremy Ross...
...earnest, a man who cannot appreciate even heaven. Williams is known for his rapid delivery and wit here seems slow and dull. He barely moves his mouth throughout the film and refuses to raise his eyes. This dour performance becomes all the more evident when Williams appears with Cuba Gooding, Jr., who breathes some life into the story. Gooding, whose energy recalls Williams' early comedic work, is a constant reminder of what Williams lacks in What Dreams May Come. The role is a serious one, but Williams is too earnest even considering the solemn subject...
...Quietly, behind the scenes, the U.S. has been moving closer toward Cuba," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tammerlin Drummond. "Castro's enemies in the U.S. are getting weaker." Drummond notes that the Cuban American National Foundation has funneled thousands of dollars to Senators such as Jesse Helms and has been instrumental in lobbying for an anti-Castro policy. But the death last year of its imposing leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, was a critical blow to the group. Since then, the Pope has visited Havana, President Clinton has declawed the Helms-Burton sanctions and influential U.S. businesses have been lobbying furiously...
American record companies, always hungry to latch onto trends, and currently ravenous to get chunks of the emerging Spanish-language entertainment market, have been sending scouts and emissaries to Cuba in search of new acts. U.S. law prohibits American companies from hiring Cuban musicians directly, so when European and Japanese labels sign Cuban performers, the American companies sometimes step in as Stateside distributors. In other cases, the musicians are signed by the American companies' foreign subsidiaries--Valdes, for example, is technically signed to EMI Canada, making it possible for EMI's Blue Note label in the U.S. to release...