Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...melodramatic funny bone in theaudience with their overactive (if repressed)sexual drives. However, the production takentogether as a clumped mass of sexual innuendoperhaps goes overboard on this front. It is inthis aspect that the production becomes in dangerof approximating not Oscar Wilde, but that otherEnglishman of perhaps more dubious fame, BennyHill...
Until there's a body count, until there's a tearful post-rehab Barbara Walters interview, until there's vehicular wreckage in a Parisian tunnel, most of us have limited tolerance for celebrities who gripe about the supposed burdens of fame. That Madonna, of all people, of all celebrities, should make the rejection of stardom and materialism the major theme of her new CD, Ray of Light (Maverick/Warner Bros.) should rightly make thinking people pause. Didn't she, from the very start, insist that we love her, demand that we worship her golden calves, her exposed iconic midriff, her conical...
...this is fuel for her new fire. Now the spotlight feels to her like an inferno, and her popularity looks like an abyss. "I traded fame for love," she laments on the CD's opening song, the gently cascading Drowned World/Substitute for Love. On the subdued Nothing Really Matters, she confesses "Looking at my life/It's very clear to me/I lived so selfishly...
LARRY DOBY Jackie Robinson's American League counterpart finally wins election to the Hall of Fame...
Black women--from Tina Turner to Tracy Chapman--helped create rock 'n' roll as it is today. Indeed, Aretha Franklin was the first female inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Even so, black female rockers aren't a common sight on MTV, and they weren't a common sight at last summer's Lilith Fair. However, several new artists are hoping to change all that. Remember to Breathe is a startlingly accomplished debut, full of spirit and smarts. And British singer-guitarist Billie Myers' recently released debut, Growing, Pains (Universal), is steadily climbing the Billboard charts...