Word: cults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MOST HAPPY FELLA. Frank Loesser's Napa Valley fable, done along operatic lines well before Andrew Lloyd Webber came along, has been a cult icon since its 1956 Broadway production. New York City Opera has a new staging. It stars Louis Quilico as the middle-aged lover of a pert mail-order bride...
Finally, it is the work of two brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, who have, professionally speaking, rolled themselves into a single, significant auteur in the course of just seven years and four films, in the process developing cult and critical followings of large and vociferous proportions...
...well be the prize work in this very fine bunch. Brady's solo career as a songwriter began more than a decade ago; before that he had been known as a reinterpreter of traditional Irish music. After his fourth solo record, in 1988, followed the usual pattern -- critical accolades, cult status, stubbornly low profile -- "I decided to take a year off" to work out the key question: "whether I actually wanted to go on making records and trying to have major success in the mainstream. A lot of the songs on Trick or Treat reflect what I was going through...
...MYSTERE DES VOIX BULGARES: VOL III (Fontana/Polygram). Voices, the name used by several women's choirs that sing traditional Bulgarian folk songs, has built a growing cult of listeners since its first U.S. release four years ago, and deservedly so. The a cappella harmonies use impossibly high pitches with exquisite precision. The effect is weird, beautiful and sometimes unearthly...
...Sayles-conceived television series about a former big-shot lawyer and high-stakes gambler trying to start his life over, completed its second season on NBC. Though its modest ratings were not enough to get it renewed for next fall, it won critical hosannas and enjoyed a strong cult following. Los Gusanos, his novel chronicling decades of personal and political intrigues in Miami's Cuban-exile community, came out in June to warm reviews. City of Hope, his movie about race and politics in a decaying industrial town (and the sixth of his films in which Sayles has appeared...