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With the popularity of releases such as Guru's "Jazzmatazz" and Us3 's "Hand on the Torch," the last few years have seen hip-hop/jazz fusion hit the mainstream charts. Eminently cool horn lines and laid back hip-hop beats brought out new shades in each genre, creating a sound that, as the sales numbers affirm, lots of people liked. Forever dabbling in popular music, Branford Marsalis offered up his version of this recipe last year with his latest band's self-titled CD, "Buckshot LeFonque." On leave from "The Tonight Show," this band is now on tour...
...Gurus," an item in the January Esquire reported that HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON and New Age writer Marianne Williamson were frequent lunch companions and that the author of A Woman's Worth had even tried her hand at presidential speechwriting. Last week the First Lady replied. "[Williams] is neither my guru nor my spiritual adviser," she wrote. Still, Clinton does admire Williamson. "She is a political supporter who has an intriguing view about popular culture." Clinton did not address the speechwriting question...
High in the himalayas lives the Guru of Low Comedy, surrounded by his tapes of Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields and the brothers Zucker. ``Great Master, what is the secret of a hit?'' ask Hollywood's best and richest when they are ushered into his presence. ``Make 'em laugh,'' is the inevitable reply, ``any damn...
George slides very far. Too solid in the end to set Katy up as a guru--she has in mind usurping his pleasant apartment--he offers her a Christmas trip to Rome instead. In the end, of course, he loses the girl, but Brookner's triumph lies in the story's resolution. Torturing his sensibilities, wasting his money, disparaging his friends, Katy nonetheless succeeds in bringing animation back to her prey. As she re-enters the void from which she came, George starts a new life...
...Tony Blankley, spokesperson for Speaker ofthe House and Contract guru Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)insists the Budget Committee document is not partof the Contract with America...