Word: debut
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...well-established basis of fans that the group has accrued since it's creation six years ago. Their wide-spread appeal came as a surprise to the four members of this alternative band but their dreamy-yet-vigorous sound resonated with the public immediately with the band's debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?. But even now, the band prefers to stay clear of the limelight in order to concentrate on their music. The Cranberries still live in Limerick, maintaining close relations to both the city and Irish culture, but their fans...
Children's book writing is becoming the new arrow in the celebrity quiver. This spring brings the debut of several children's authors, including playwright WENDY WASSERSTEIN, radio host Garrison Keillor and New Age guru MARIANNE WILLIAMSON. Jamie Lee Curtis' and TIM BURTON's next books are due out in the fall; and Julie Andrews (pen name: Julie Edwards) and RICKI LAKE both have publishers expecting manuscripts. Why children's books? "I think it's a boomer thing--a group of people recapturing their youth," says Wasserstein, whose book is about a girl's first theater visit. Plus, they...
...unannounced. The other acts are mostly smaller, local ones with monikers that evoke the names of long shots on racing forms--Cowboy Mouth, Gracie Moon, Treadmill Trackstar. So it's sure to cause a commotion when Hootie--a band that has sold 13 million copies and counting of its debut album, Cracked Rear View--suddenly shows up and starts playing at one of the dozen or so small festival stages. Says drummer Jim ("Soni") Sonefeld: "It's outdoors, there are a lot of drunks, it's our hometown--this has the potential for being really out of control." He says...
...depressive lyrics turned out to be all too genuine. Hootie was embraced as an alternative to alternative, a straight-ahead zig to the posturing zag of the rest of contemporary rock, and Cracked Rear View, with its brawny, melodic, heartfelt songs, went on to become the second best-selling debut of all time...
Elsewhere on campus there was more traditional fare. In front of the steps from Memorial Church, on a small wooden platform surrounded with leaf-covered microphones, the Hyperion Shakespeare Company made their debut with a production of "Much Ado About Nothing...