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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...
Ghosts of Christmases past haunt Elton John this week as the secrets of his private spending sprees continue to leak out of his legal imbroglio with a former lover. John, of course, is the world's most famous compulsive shopper-he once boasted that he could find a shop in the Sahara desert and has four luxury homes, and all sorts of vintage cars, jewelry, outrageous costumes and clothes. Out of court came the precise figure: John once spent $56.95 million in a 20 month period, more than $468,000 of it on flowers alone. When asked to explain...
QUITE A SUIT, ELTON...
...ELTON JOHN would just as soon ignore "men in suits," his lawyer told Britain's high court. That may explain how he never noticed until recently that $14 million of his had gone missing. He is suing some of the besuited men--his accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers. The teensy problem with lawsuits about money is that they throw open one's spending habits to the prying eyes of the less pecuniarily blessed. And John had some habits. When the accounting firm's lawyer Mark Hapgood asked him in court if he really spent $57 million in less than two years, he responded...
Stumper of the week: how do you say "She Bangs" in Spanish? We're enter into the end-of-year silly season, where all the albums by major artists are greatest-hits compilations (Blur), live albums (Neil Young, Elton John, Alice in Chains), cover albums (Rage Against the Machine) or, worse yet, Christmas albums (hello, Ms Aguilera!). Although, of course, there are exceptions. Next Tuesday Backstreet's back. Alright...