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...Life is far from perfect. While startlingly raw for Broadway (the hookers are grungy, fleshy and foul-mouthed), the milieu will seem old hat to anyone who has seen, say, an episode of NYPD Blue, and the melodrama is often heavy-handed. What transforms the show is Coleman's vital, jazzy score--his best since Sweet Charity--and Michael Blakemore's crisp, less-is-more staging. The show starts out in high gear with an infectiously cynical ode to self-interest (Use What You Got), sung by hustler-narrator Jojo (the excellent Sam Harris), and keeps topping itself. Lillias White...
MUSIC . . . DON'T LOOK BACK: "John Lee Hooker doesn?t just sing the blues, and he doesn?t just play the blues on his guitar," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "He is the blues." Along with a handful of American musicians, such as Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Bessie Smith and a few others, Hooker helped establish in the cultural imagination what being a blues performer is all about. Hooker is fond of using collaborators to enliven his music, and on his new album he?s chosen his partners deftly. The band Los Lobos backs Hooker on a virile version...
...Ellen's fate with the Nielsens, television's treatment of sexuality is likely to continue becoming increasingly frank, vulgar or immoral, depending on one's vantage point and what, of course, one is viewing (Chicago Hope? Married...With Children? A made-for-TV movie starring Tori Spelling as a hooker?) The medium--and America--has patently come a long way from the 1952-53 season, when the cast of I Love Lucy couldn't utter the word pregnant during Little Ricky's gestation period, or 1965 when, a year after network TV got its first double marital bed on Bewitched...
...also dreaded being asked about the absence of disdain in the press toward the publishers that, according to one report, made competing offers to Morris after his involvement with Sherry Rowlands was revealed--inspiring some writers I know to imagine that if they ever got caught with a hooker in a cheap motel they'd be able to say to their wives, "I was only trying to get a bigger advance...
DIED. EVELYN HOOKER, 89, UCLA psychologist whose research in the 1950s led to the removal of homosexuality as a psychological disorder from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; in Santa Monica, California...