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...through in the '80s and '90s opened the show. A newly blond Sheryl Crow strutted her stuff in Victorian hippie garb followed by Hendrix aficionado Lenny Kravitz (playing rather louder than the comfort zone for most middle-aged Democrats), a soberly besuited Jon Bon Jovi and a beaming k.d. lang. The performers each contributed one or two of their hits, an astute choice for a benefit crowd that nuzzles more contentedly on familiarity than new terrain. When the artist roster first reached back into the 1970s it yielded the laid-back Buffet, who revealed the "play...
...Elian: Bart Simpson "Ay caramba" Juan Miguel: Desi Arnaz Jr. Lazaro Gonzalez: Saddam Hussein Marisleysis: Monica Seles Armando Gutierrez: Cheech Marin Greg Craig: Richard Gere Janet Reno: Judge Judy Scheindlin or K.D. Lang Fidel Castro: Any member of ZZ top Donato Dalrymple: Dustin Hoffman Diane Sawyer: Sharon Stone Bill Clinton: Ron Jeremy Al Gore: WWF CEO Vince McMahon...
...senators tried to use its more prurient components to block Hormel's nomination to be ambassador to Luxembourg. Alongside the racy books that so flustered Jesse Helms are such bland fare as Love, Ellen, Betty Degeneres's heartwarming tribute to her lesbian daughter, or the newest biography of k.d. lang. Academic tomes about lesbian and gay studies nestle alongside gay personal finance books and travel guides. The selection spans the Dewey Decimal System, with books selected not for their specific subject matter, their intellectual approach or even their merit, but rather for their presumed appeal to gay and lesbian readers...
...Main Library is dedicated to promoting "the joys of reading for our diverse community," but the centers interpret that diversity in the most literal sense. A "center" for black readers ought to contain more than books on race; a gay man or woman might have interests beyond k.d. lang's life story...
...with all lang albums, Summer is about love in its various colors. But while the characters inhabiting her songs are often forlorn and wanting, the love they grapple with is rejuvenating. What Summer lacks is a punchy, Constant Craving-style single to buoy it up the charts. But even without that, Summer succeeds, at least in part, because of its implicit promise that lang is back on track, and her true greatness may be just around the corner...