Word: divas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more interesting cultural developments of the '90s is America's fascination with drag queens. Stemming from the blond wig and impossibly long legs of ubiquitous model-cum-disco diva, Rupaul, and the popularity of last year's fantastic, flip-flop-dress-filled Australian import, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," the popularity of drag now includes huge numbers of non-traditional (i.e. straight) fans...
Nomi's mentor, of sorts, is the show's bitchy diva, Cristal Connors (Gina Gershon), who in turn flaunts her own desire for the nubile Nomi...
...what catches the ear of any diva devotee is Twain's easy virtuosity. Attend to her reading of this verse: "Any man of mine'll say it fits just right/ When last year's dress is just a little too tight/ And anything I do or say, that'll be O.K./ When I have a bad hair day." The throaty intimacy, the smart selling of each phrase, the whisper of lightly ironic girl talk in "just a little too tight," the clear but not prissy enunciation--these are signs of a true storyteller in song. And since she delivers...
Annie Lennox follows "Diva," her aptly titled 1992 album of her original music with a recording of 10 old and new songs written by others. "In Divadom," says TIME's Richard Corliss, "an album needs only one great song. Medusa has two." The first, a cover of "No More 'I Love You's,'" is an evocation of love's demons in which a woman's bed of sad passion telescopes into a child's bedroom fears. A reworking of Paul Simon's "Something So Right" closes out the album and answers the pessimism of the first tune with a simple...
...course, when a pelican who has been changed into a man and kung fu diva who wields a broom are just two of the zany people who help them figure out who they are, things are bound to get a little strange and a lot complicated...