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...Jersey but considers herself "Haitian by association." The band's winning new album The Score draws liberally from the music of both the Caribbean (there's a rousing cover of Bob Marley's No Woman, No Cry) and urban America (a woozy hip-hop remake of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly...
MANDY GRUNWALD The idle ex-flack for Clinton (and suspected novelist) has never received so much attention...
...cross MIKE WALLACE in print, don't go anywhere near his turf. The gruff correspondent has been incensed by comments about himself and 60 Minutes in a new memoir by former White House flack MARLIN FITZWATER. Last week he learned that Fitzwater was preparing to tape an episode of Politically Incorrect in a leased cbs studio. After haranguing Fitzwater on the phone, Wallace turned up in person and, generously sprinkling his speech with obscenities, demanded a public apology. Fitzwater refused. And after Wallace finally left, Fitzwater left too, saying he was too flustered to go on with the show...
Joel Dorn, a longtime industry talent scout credited with discovering Bette Midler, Roberta Flack and the Neville Brothers, located the lost Coltrane tapes amid hundreds of sloppily marked reels in a storeroom in Atlantic Records' New York City office. Fortunately, the tapes were in near perfect condition. "We just blew the dust off," says Dorn. "We didn't play with the sound by boosting the bottom or putting sparkle on top." No tricks were needed; Coltrane's energy and grace come through without added studio polish...
...prize catch," writes Griffith of the 26-year-old Harvard graduate who had gone to China as a flack for Chiang in his battles against both the Japanese army and the communist legions, led by Mao Zedong. Both those struggles were holy wars for Luce, the son of Presbyterian missionaries in China. White was indeed a prize who would go on to become perhaps the greatest journalist of his time, chronicling (mostly in books written after his tenure at TIME, from 1941 to 1946) the wars and corruptions of Chiang and Mao, the postwar rebuilding of Europe and the making...