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...AIDA Disney faces a "Lion King" problem - how can anything measure up? - but this kid-friendly version of the opera, with Elton John and Tim Rice replacing Verdi, has pleasures aplenty. Heather Headley is a knockout, and Bob Crowley's inventive sets will do until the next Julie Taymor comes along...
...made the most popular record ever? "White Christmas" was on the charts every year but one between 1941 and 1962. And we'll bet you heard it more in the last few months than the official all-time top seller, "Candles in the Wind." The success of the Elton John disc was due to a convulsive spasm of Di-die worship; Der Bingle singing Berlin is, better or worse, for the ages...
...Losers JESSE JACKSON Bush administration declines J.J.'s request to solve the Hainan incident with "religious diplomacy." Beijing kowtows in gratitude ELTON JOHN Shopaholic pop star loses multimillion dollar lawsuit against his former accountant and ex-manager. Time to slash the fresh flower budget? STEVE BUSCEMI Fargo star gets stabbed during a North Carolina bar brawl. Intense method actor vows to use his injuries to fuel rage-filled indy film performances...
...Here was a defining moment. The house divided between (1) those of us who believe in the stiff upper lip and the essential privacy of authentic human feeling, including grief; and (2) those who weep along with Elton John as he sings "Candle in the Wind" to the prostrate world, or who deposit teddy bears and such mementoes at the doorsteps of celebrities they never met. Intimacy on parade: Sorrow as pornography. Americans staged the same spectacles when John Kennedy Jr. died...
...individual situations. Better to show that respect that is evident when a president assumes that the American people are adults, that they understand the complexity and inevitable abrasions of, say, police-community relations in a town like Cincinnati, and that they do not expect their president to be Elton John, singing to them in maudlin quavers...