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...labels or sneaking the bag boy from the Piggly Wiggly on the tour bus. And country hasn't had a fresh young thing in a couple of years. Then in walks Georgia peach (from Tipton) singer-songwriter CYNDI THOMSON, 24. Her first CD, My World, is the best-selling debut album since teen belter LeAnn Rimes' Blue. Thomson's discovery was a little bit country: she left dog Charlie behind to go to Nashville, and her parents sold the car to pay her way. Of course her looks haven't hurt--and neither has her husky voice, which has been...
...last year's comedy High Fidelity arrives when the snarling, hyperactive record-store clerk played by comic actor Jack Black delivers a soulful rendition of the Marvin Gaye song Let's Get it On. He can sing!, the viewer gasps. The pleasures of Tenacious D (Epic), the self-titled debut from a rock duo composed of Black and fellow actor/singer/guitarist Kyle Gass, flow from a similar revelation: Black and Gass set themselves up as buffoons with titles like Karate Schnitzel, then proceed to defy expectations with precise guitars, polished vocal harmonies and slamming backup musicians. Their tunes, informed...
Since its debut in 1983, U.S. News’ rankings have become the most high-profile of the college guides. While widely criticized, the guide is eagerly anticipated by both college-bound students and their parents, as well as the colleges themselves, because application numbers can be affected by the rankings...
...singer Kyu Sakamoto, who also died in the crash. The song topped charts around the world in 1963 (in the U.S., it was called Sukiyaki) and is popular again in Japan thanks to the plaintive rendition Diana plays in sold-out concerts and on a best-selling debut CD, which is dedicated to her father and other victims of the crash. When she finishes, she walks calmly into a log cabin and bursts into tears...
...This was largely thanks to Wai, a pinwheel of compelling, eccentric movie ideas. In the '80s they had worked together at tvb, Hong Kong's highest-rated channel. (That's also where To meet his wife Paulina; they have been married for 23 years.) Wai made his directorial debut in 1995 with Peace Hotel, a Chow Yun-fat Eastern Western whose bold, dusky style seemed indebted equally to Woo, Sergio Leone and Wong...