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Winter 8-8:30 "30 Seconds to Fame" 8:30-9 "Meet the Marks" 9-10 "Septuplets...
...Take a stroll on the north side of Hollywood Blvd. At no. 6721, in front of Joe's Diner, across from the Ripley's Believe It Or Not emporium, stop to glance down at the pavement. There you will see three consecutive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte and Oscar Micheaux. You recognize two of the names. The tan tantalizer Dandridge was the first black to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar ("Carmen Jones," 1955); Belafonte was and is the cool, sexy actor-singer with a half-century's radiance. But Micheaux? Considering...
...HAVE ENORMOUS FAME BUT STRIVE FOR PRIVACY. IS THAT HARD TO HANDLE...
...Lauryn Hill lost it? Hill became an instant superstar with the release of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in 1998. She won five Grammys, including Album of the Year, and sold 12 million records, but ever since she has been cruising on fame's dark side. First, she was sued by members of her band who demanded Miseducation production credits. Then she disappeared from the spotlight, sparking persistent rumors that had her fighting with her former band mates in the Fugees, becoming an Evangelical Christian or dealing with serious marital problems. Hill has not done a lengthy interview...
Hill is talented enough, however, to make her purges kind of interesting. Oh Jerusalem, a song that, like most of Unplugged's other tracks, mixes biblical imagery with self-dread and confusion, deals eloquently with the well-worn theme of struggling with fame. "Naked as the day that I was born," she sings, "I tried to hide, behind education and philosophy/ Hopeless explanation to describe a situation, I can't see because the world's on top of me." Hill lifts her game while beating herself down. At the end of the first disc, on the standout I Gotta Find...