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...cared for him, though. He had been a star since 1946, when he and Lewis teamed up in a musical-comedy act. For a decade they dominated nightclubs, concert stages, films and TV, while Dean's record--That's Amore, Memories Are Made of This--went gold. When the duo split, Martin rebounded as a solo movie star and, for a few years, a fine actor. He had more hit tunes in the '60s and '70s, anchored a nine-year TV franchise, appeared whenever he felt like it in casinos with his Rat Pack pals. Last week, after he died...
That won't happen with Groove Theory. The New York City-based alternative R.-and-B. duo, composed of producer-instrumentalist Bryce Wilson and singer-lyricist Amel Larrieux, have a hit (their sweetly insinuative single Tell Me has sold more than half a million copies), and, happily, the rest of their debut CD, titled simply Groove Theory (Epic), amply lives up to that first smash...
...mature, well-crafted debut" is how TIME's Christopher John Farley describes the eponymously titled first album from the New York City-based alternative rhythm and blues duo Groove Theory. The album is remarkably consistent; every song amply lives up to the promise of the sweetly insinuating first single "Tell Me". Groove Theory is a restrained affair, with reservoirs of emotion. Singer-lyricist Amel Larrieux's voice is a placid soprano with an intriguing hint of hidden hurt that evokes the gently aching style of Sade, or Beth Gibbons of the British band Portishead...
Playing the more outrageous half of a duo opposite ROBIN WILLIAMS is a task that would make many actors throw in their cold cream. Not NATHAN LANE, however. Lane plays Williams' longtime lover in The Birdcage, the Mike Nichols-directed remake of La Cage aux Folles. "I know there were times when Robin probably wanted to be outrageous," says Lane, no stranger to flamboyance. "But there was instant chemistry. I think he felt like I was a kindred spirit." Lane's reaction to being offered the career-making role was aptly Williamsian. When Nichols told him he wanted to talk...
Even though they were seeded third, the Crimson duo did not expect to win the championship...