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Best Supporting Actor: Derrick N. Ashong '97, for Amistad. Don't fake the funk...
...then there was 1996's Evita excursion, finally bringing the Material Girl out of her funk and into a new stage of evolution. She even took lessons to improve a voice which even she knew was dreadfully weak. Indeed, Madonna was set to wow everyone with her foray into showtunes and her new vocal range. History, however, repeated itself: Madonna got pregnant halfway into the movie's shoot and delivered her baby a couple of months before the movie opened. Result: "Mama Madonna" mania took over the country--the album, unfortunately...
...Family Stand is a '90's band that has been deeply influenced by the mixture of soul and funk music that occurred from 1968-1975. The members of the band try to make music that breaks boundaries and is unable to be pigeonholed. Lord, singer/songwriter as well as producer, claims that The Family Stand is trying to reach its listeners in as many ways as possible through its music, aiming to move both the body and the mind, a goal which is achieved in Connected. One of the group's main objectives is to break through musical limits, and although...
...recent new Coen Brothers' movie of course brings us to the question of the new national underground lingo necessary eventually to replace African-American dialects, in everything from gangsta to funk to run-of-the-mill infusions. Fargo gave us the possibility of Minnesotan, but the limited variation--a few maple-leaf reminscent phonetic twists and an assortment of pause formations--obviously means it won't pan out. '80s surfer lingo didn't last too long, nor can computerese. So, geeoun before the geeoun's through, and I think latinitata will res out. Nice...
Deep Blue Funk...