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Although Bailey is good songwriter and student, he falls far short of his idol in vocal dexterity. A hulking man, Bailey can handle the low notes with gruff growl. But when his voice tries to soar and twist like Morrison's, his short-comings are all too evident. Whereas Morrison can take an extremely simple melody and wring out surprises, Bailey can only increase the volume of his bellow...
...crowds in Prague last week could have been greeting a rock star or a movie idol. "I can see him! I can see him! He has on a hat!" cried one woman. "We're all his supporters. I was so close, I could look at him eye to eye." Swooned another: "My heart was thumping!" The object of their affection, though, was not the U2 band or Television Star Harry Hamlin. It was none other than Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who was making his first official visit to Czechoslovakia...
...Hyunjune Seung) is a Chinese American filmmaker who evades his Asian roots yet also refuses to assimilate into mainstream American culture. Instead, Tam strives to establish a Black American identity. He adopts an urban Black speech pattern, gives "high fives" rather than shaking hands, and chooses as his idol a Black boxer named Ovaltine...
...gallery that contains the weak pastiches of Matisse by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and other Bloomsbury-approved painters into the one dedicated to Britain's avant-garde at the time of World War I is to move from cozy provincialism to formidable energy. Its monument (or perhaps, its idol) is the only large marble carving that Henri Gaudier- Brzeska was able to complete before his death in an infantry charge, at the age of 23, in 1915. This is the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound, 1914, and hieratic it is; the face, with its wedge of a nose, embrasure-like...
Fans are greedy, possessive creatures who demand too much of their idol: that she stay faithful to the first blinding image of herself, that she stand forever in its wilting light. Bette Midler may figure she has paid her dues as an entertainer and earned a paid vacation in the movies. Why shouldn't she be happy to trade in the enervating risk of a solo act on the road for the cozy virtues of family, familiarity and the Hollywood version of a steady job? The star that shines can shine on; the star that burns may burn...