Word: divas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THIS IS NOT SURPRISING: She is reputedly a diva; she hangs with Michael Jackson, who hates being touched; she grabbed rapper Lil' Kim's breast at the MTV Video Music Awards...
...timing! Happily, though, Curtis (a Newbery Medal honoree) has conjured a hero just as mesmerizing but grittier. Ten-year-old Bud Caldwell ditches his foster home in Depression-era Flint, Mich., and heads for the jazz clubs of Grand Rapids in search of his long-lost dad. A gentle diva, based on Flint's own Betty Carter, shows Bud that a family exists whenever folks decide to stick together. Kids will take to Bud's hilarious advice for "becoming a better liar." But be warned: they may also insist on learning to play...
...absolutely as adorable now as she ever was--even though according to "Clarissa Explains It All", she should officially not own a single item from Claire's Accessories. But she is still terrifically cute in a terrifically cute movie that is exactly what one would expect from the reigning diva of ABC's TGIF...
...they can be seen by bigger audiences (and telecast over PBS). The two companies also share an ensemble of theatrically savvy young American singers, foremost among them soprano Lauren Flanigan, whose Olivier-like immersion in her roles has won her a well-deserved reputation as the thinking person's diva. Flanigan sings two sharply contrasting parts in Central Park--a frustrated divorce in The Festival of Regrets (book by Wasserstein, music by Deborah Drattell) and a desperate bag lady in The Food of Love (book by McNally, music by Robert Beaser)--and brings them both off with staggering assurance...
...special appeal, not just to British subjects but also to people the world over? A late spasm of royalism hardly explains it, even in Britain, for many true British monarchists despised her for cheapening the royal institution by behaving more like a movie star or a pop diva than a princess. To many others, however, that was precisely her attraction...