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...single area in a single city; the tickets are pricey, and the shows often appeal to glitzy, tuxedo-wearing values from a seemingly bygone era. But two of Broadway's biggest recent hits, the rock opera Rent and the tap-dance epic Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, in some respects stand in opposition to all that. Rent is about fighting landlords and hiv; Noise/Funk is about struggling with the Man, racist cab drivers and whitewashed history. Still, despite the populist appeal of these shows, you can see them in only one place, in one city; and--with...
Irritating. Endlessly irritating. The increasingly unintelligible, high-pitched whine of these wretched bugs cavorting in toilets and a jock strap is enough to cure anyone complaining of sanity. Sure, a barber shop quartet starring disease-carrying vermin rates high on anyone's cuteness scale, but after a funk number, or a gospel number, or the film's opening chorus...one just wants to crawl under a carpet and take a quiet...
HARRY CONNICK JR., who turns up on screen in Independence Day as a drawling, alien-hunting fighter pilot, also has a new album, Star Turtle, which just happens to have an extraterrestrial theme. The jazz-funk record describes a cosmic terrapin's landing in New Orleans and his evening of club crawling with local lounge lizards. But those looking for a link between movie and album are lost in space, Connick says. "The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff." The seeming coincidence can be chalked up to that secret something known as cross-promotion...
...cash. Now they are even flashing plastic to buy groceries. Household borrowing currently stands at a record $1.14 trillion, an amount equal to Britain's entire gross domestic product. A spike in interest rates could thus send U.S. consumers--not to mention the rest of the economy--into a funk...
PLEADED GUILTY. SAVION GLOVER, 22, star of the Tony Award-winning Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk; to a disorderly-conduct charge stemming from an arrest for impaired driving and marijuana possession; in New York City...