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...What's with T.J. Hooker's last name...
...never thought of it in the context you're thinking of, the word hooker...
Recording artists sardonically observe that in their business, nothing succeeds like death. For better or worse, a musician's demise often means more sales. Record companies are hoping that trend holds for three giants who have died in the past six weeks. Music Club has released John Lee Hooker...Is Hip: His Greatest Hits by the legendary Mississippi blues guitarist. Country guitar god Chet Atkins' new release, A Master and His Music, is on the BMG/RCA label. No postmortem releases by trumpeter and Latin-jazz innovator Chico O'Farrill have been announced, but his greatest stuff is on Cuban Blues...
...They actually split not long after the Oscars, but she still calls him "the greatest guy.") We follow her personal travails because we project our dreams onto movie stars, and so we want her to live happily ever after. A decade ago, as Pretty Woman's naughty-but-nice hooker, she became a sex symbol for the safe-sex era. But we resisted her in less glamorous roles like Mary Reilly's grim-faced maid...
...Homecoming, for instance, a woman controls her patronizing husband and his lecherous family by becoming a high-class hooker. The Caretaker depicts a three-way conflict between a tramp and the two brothers who take him in. Pinter's most recent play, Celebration (also at the Lincoln Center Festival), features an oblique struggle for dominance between two sets of diners in a restaurant - yet you never know precisely why they are competing. The stakes are never obvious in Pinter. Characters' true meanings are always hidden between and behind the words. A simple invitation to sit down can become a dangerous...