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Their names have endured as clichés of musical humor, be it in an ancient Cheech and Chong routine or the tongue-in-cheek moniker of the near-forgotten rock band Blind Melon. But there was nothing funny about Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Blake, who in their time exerted a huge influence on the evolution of popular music. A pair of new compilations from Shanachie, painstakingly assembled from old recordings from the 1920's and enhanced for maximum audio quality, provides a valuable insight on the oeuvre of both of these unique performers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Men With the Blues Guitars | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...been a favorite among his Asian fans and won Best Action Choreography (Chia-Liang Liu) at the 1995 Hong Kong Film Awards, it's a difficult film to digest if you're in a semi-serious or just a typical mood. It's very difficult not to appreciate the humor of a line (and I am serious that this line was in the movie) that goes, "Fei-Hung, don't be ashamed. When we were little kids, we used to go naked all the time...

Author: By Christine Tran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chan Plays It Cool in 'Legend of Drunken Master' | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...have to tone down some of the humor for the adult audience, but it will be nice to show my parents I am actually doing something worthwhile here," said the troupe's lone first-year, Robert J. Dubbin...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First-Year Parents Descend On Yard | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...last category, George, is the "unfunny" category. You may not realize it, but most of the time, when you are laughing, the rest of us are not. Perhaps Texas humor does not extend far beyond the state lines. Try to keep your humor to a minimum. You receive plenty of laughs without even trying...

Author: By Robert J. Saranchak, | Title: Some Advice For the Man From Texas | 10/24/2000 | See Source »

Like the pre-Disney Elton John, Williams is blessed with the rarest of pop assets--a sense of humor. As a refugee from the English boy band Take That, Williams pretty much had to learn how to sing with his tongue in his cheek; and here, on the ridiculously camp Rock DJ and the Gloria Gaynor-needling Supreme, he proves that high-energy, danceable pop can be funny for the right reasons. When called upon (Better Man, The Road to Mandalay), he can also sell a song like a more traditional emoter, but what fun is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sing When You're Winning | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

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