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...quality of movies was way off this year. The festival jury, which was led by French director Patrice Ch?reau and included Bollywood diva Aishwarya Rai and Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen, deemed only four films worthy of prizes?the lowest number in memory. They also went out of their way to reward movies that were moderate in tone (except for Elephant): the winners included a genial comedy-drama about a dying professor (French Canada's The Barbarian Invasions), a minimalist study of two cousins getting on each other's nerves (the Turkish Uzak), and the one Asian awardee, At Five...
...sing, dance, joke or pose their way to stardom. We have USA network's Nashville Star (country music), CBS's Star Search (singing, comedy, dancing), ABC's All-American Girl (beauty, brains and athletics), even Animal Planet's Pet Star (self-explanatory). This week VH1 launches Born to Diva, and in May, UPN airs America's Next Top Model. NBC is airing or planning searches for talented kids, seniors, comics and action-movie actors, plus a reality-show reconception of the teen-musicians drama Fame. Jeff Gaspin, NBC's head of reality programming, doesn't feel it's overkill. "They...
...with 6-to-13-year-old singers, will not even have judges, just an audience vote.) But what the Idolettes sometimes don't understand is that Idol's meanness makes the apotheosis of its winner all the sweeter (and thus more marketable). The welcome exception is Born to Diva, a blessedly catty celebration of show-biz egocentrism. Its female belters may not be as talented as Idol's, but they are adept in the diva-esque arts of eye rolling, backbiting and referring to oneself in the third person. That will serve them well in show biz, where they will...
...classically trained pianist who was known, somewhat inaccurately, as the "high priestess of soul"; of undisclosed causes; in Carry-le-Rouet, France. Born Eunice Waymon (she changed her name so her mother wouldn't catch on to her pop career), the onetime aspiring concert pianist and self-described "diva" had only one hit single--I Loves You Porgy in 1959--but gained a following in the U.S. and Europe for her alternately smooth and gravelly tones, majestic stage presence and maverick opinions. Bristling at mainstream pop-music labels, Simone called her music "black classical" and embraced African folk, gospel, jazz...
Just released in the States, it was last year’s best album; on it, Ms. Dynamite makes the crossover from underground garage emcee to dancehall diva. In fact, A Little Deeper only shows its two-step roots on the final two tracks, the offbeat and frenetic “Danger” and “Ramp.” Instead, most of the album offers track after track of MTV-worthy, melodic hip-hop gems. Dynamite’s been billed as the British Lauryn Hill, but this album blows away Hill’s recent self...