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...money to be made in hip-hop, it attracts top talent. In Havana's lush Miramar neighborhood, Equis Alfonso, a.k.a. X Alfonso, 28, is talking about his upcoming hip-hop/son fusion album titled X-More. He also has some sharp words about the Buena Vista Social Club, the geezer vocal group that popularized prerevolution balladry everywhere but Cuba. "People think because of Ry Cooder and Buena Vista that Cuban music became better known," says Alfonso, who is also a member of the hot fusion group Sintesis. "That may be true, but it set us back 40 years...
...Read why Rick Stengel is tired of Madonna and summer's other geezer rockers. His column runs every Friday. time.com/stengel...
...guess I'm just tired of geezer rock stars who won't hang up their leather pants. The Rolling Stones are contemplating another world tour. Attention readers and potential ticket buyers: Mick Jagger is older than George W. Bush. Do you really want to see him strutting his emaciated self across the stage? Like Madonna, he's another example of mutton-dressed-up-as-lamb. The Stones and the Who and Aerosmith - even U2, for that matter - don't so much reinvent themselves as become Madame Tussaud figures of themselves. And like those wax figures, the Stones look so eerily...
...even at Stanford a divide existed between Us--peppered among the student body like beneficiaries of some geezer affirmative-action program--and Them--22-year-old biochemistry majors. At orientation, one young classmate told me, "Wow, by the time you start practicing, you'll be almost menopausal...
...cameramen, who must have worked for Ed Sullivan in the days of Elvis, were forbidden to show Jennifer Lopez below the collarbone. Stephen Soderbergh, Best Director (for "Traffic") gave a feeling and self-effacing speech about creativity ("the world would be intolerable without art"). Bob Dylan materialized from Australia, geezer indeed, with a fascinatingly cunning, wolfish look in his pale gray eye, like Vincent Price when he's up to something...