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...died of diabetes complications in Ho Chi Minh City last week, wasn't liked by the old Saigon regime bullyboys because they thought his lyrics favored unification and disparaged war. They did, of course, and Son?dubbed "the Bob Dylan of Vietnam" by none other than Joan Baez?became an anti-war icon. The communists were suspicious of Son, and sent him to a re-education camp for four years. "Romantic songs are my style," he told me a year ago. "Now that the pain and sadness of war are gone, young people do not really understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

DIED. TRINH CONG SON, 62, wispy but uncompromising singer-songwriter whom Joan Baez called "the Bob Dylan of Vietnam"; of diabetes; in Ho Chi Minh City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 16, 2001 | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...David Duchovny practices Kundalini yoga; Julia Louis-Dreyfuss prefers Ashtanga. Sabrina the Teenage Witch stars Melissa Joan Hart and Soleil Moon Frye throw yoga parties. Jane Fonda cut out aerobics for it; Angelina Jolie buffed up for Tomb Raider with it. The newly clean Charlie Sheen used yoga and dieting to shed 30 lbs. Add at least two Sex in the City vamps, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis. All three Dixie Chicks. Sports stars from basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Yankee pitcher Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez are devotees. And speaking of athletes, who showed up the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Of Yoga | 4/15/2001 | See Source »

Someone once said my column reminds them of Joan Rivers and I nearly puked in horror. Come on now. Joan Rivers is not only totally devoid of cultural relevance, but she is also dumb as a stump. Oscar night proved it. Here are some choice moments from her broadcast on E! that appeared in Entertainment Weekly...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the (K)now | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

Bette may be gone, but the star-vehicle sitcom train of 2000-01 sputters on. The always adorable Joan Cusack is betrayed by the relationship comedy Joan, which cranks up her neurotic cuteness to clinically diagnosable levels and plays a little like a live-action version of Cathy. Damon Wayans fares better as a besieged patriarch in Wife, but it too visibly strains to be a 21st century Cosby Show, less because of the bourgie African-American milieu than because of the tiredly wisecracking Huxtabilitude it shoehorns the acerbic Wayans into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What About Joan ABC, Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.; | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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