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...familiar, if not shopworn, names were on the list, including Bryan Adams, Sheryl Crow and Journey. There were also, thankfully, some fresh, exciting names--the Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees certainly deserved their nomination in the Album of the Year category, as teenage country crooner LeAnn Rimes did hers for Best New Artist. But one name stood out from all the others. Or rather, kind of leaned against the wall, looking cooler than everyone else in the vicinity in a throwback to James Dean. That name was Beck Hansen, the folk/hip-hop/punk rocker who was nominated in three categories...
...show, Always...Patsy Cline, played for two years in Nashville, Tennessee. The star of Always, Mandy Barnett, has just released her own album of Cline-inflected tunes. And for weeks the hottest country CD on Billboard's pop charts has been Blue, in which 13-year-old Texas phenom LeAnn Rimes does similarly in-Clined material, including the title song, which was written originally for the dead star. There's musical multiplicity in the country air: the invasion of the Patsy Clones...
Listen to her rich, brooding contralto and you can only assume that LEANN RIMES has loved and lost more times than Tammy Wynette. As it turns out, though, this Texas chanteuse is still at an age where heartbreak is a bad game of spin the bottle. Rimes, 13, is churning out teardrops across the country with her first single, Blue, a ballad originally written for Patsy Cline. Rimes' rendition has soared up the country charts, putting her in the company of idols like Wynonna Judd. "Everybody's starting to know who I am," Rimes says. But do fans believe...
With an undersized and sparsely decorated stage, the festive and timely costumes of Costume Designer LeAnn Tzeng greatly livened up the aethetics of the production...
...after her husband's arrest, LeAnn Lewis surrendered to authorities in Chicago. She was held on $5 million bond after U.S. Attorney Dan Webb alleged that she helped her husband send a mid-October death threat to President Reagan. The letter, allegedly in James Lewis' handwriting, criticized Reagan's tax policies and threatened an attack on the White House with radio-controlled model airplanes somehow designed to confuse Secret Service radio communications. Said a federal investigator: "You could tell it was written by someone whose thoughts were muddled." Like the original extortion note, the letter was stamped...