Word: ego
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...lived in America all your life, there's a fair chance that you've never heard of British pop-rocker Robbie Williams. It seems strange that the man who has sold over 5 million albums around the world should be relatively unknown here. Even The Ego Has Landed, his critically acclaimed 1999 release, failed to appeal to the U.S. in a megastar way, although with the help of singles like "Angel" it did manage to sell enough here to achieve gold status. But all that could change with the release of his new record, Sing When You're Winning...
...pleasantly surprising, then, that Williams' ego doesn't play a larger role in this album. Apart from the occasional knowingly cocky lyric ("Don't hate me 'cos I'm handsome" and his favorite, "Get on your knees"), the songs are on the whole intelligent, perhaps the sign of a maturing artist...
...rage, sticks a gun in the Son's mouth. The only things immune to his touch are the names of the players themselves: the whole time it is only Son, Father, Mother and Daughter. Family members are the rocks upon which the Son's fragile shell of an ego crashes...
...Bette." The diva-ish drama queen Midler plays fuses the real woman's resume--a famous singer- actress who started out singing in New York City's gay bathhouses, starred in Beaches and so on--with the persona of the Divine Miss M, the blowsy, flighty, attention-craving alter ego Midler created in her stage shows. "Bette" blitzes her way through the series, to the bemusement and exhaustion of her family and support group: her professor husband (Kevin Dunn), her teenage daughter (Marina Malota), her manager (Joanna Gleason) and her fussy British accompanist (James Dreyfus). "You can't have Bette...
...know, Cheney and Lieberman looked and sounded about as exciting as a school board meeting - low-keyed and matter-of-fact. That is what was attractive about the encounter: It seemed like the best of the American system - civic-minded, without the idiocies of ego and hype that have contaminated the battle of the inadequate sons...