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...musicians here are generally not superstars, although such nationally known acts as Soul Asylum and the Mississippi Mass Choir do make appearances. And a few of the performers featured deserve a shot on Leno or Conan O'Brien, chief among them the spirited New Orleans hip-hop brass band Soul Rebels. Most of the acts on River of Song, however, seem content with local renown. They display a commitment that's deeper than celebrity: for them, music isn't simply a means to acquire wealth or fame; it's a method of preserving traditions and a way of life...
Decades ago, Alfred Hitchcock said actors were cattle. Today celebrities are meat: junk food for tabloid headlines, canapes for cocktail-party surmise, fodder for Leno and Letterman raillery. Are the charges, whispers and gags true? Hardly matters; they need only be entertaining. Star tattle proceeds from two American impulses: cynicism and sentimentality. Sentimentally we imagine that a popular artist must have hidden depths. Cynically we suspect that every star must have a guilty secret; all that power, money and spare time allow them to act out any sick whim. Gossip has become the purest form of show biz, a story...
What, for example, does he think about his former label? "[Mercury] had a terrible distribution problem," he says. "I've had humongously huge hit records, and I'd walk into like the local Target and--no stock." Nor is he fond of Jay Leno's Tonight Show: "I was on that show once and it was like, 'Ahhhh! This is brain damage!'" And like many of the ordinary folks who make up his fan base, he's fed up with the situation in Washington. "I don't understand how they got those [Clinton grand jury] tapes on TV," he complains...
Once described by Jimmy Carter as the most boring man he ever met, Glenn was game enough to risk trading one-liners with Jay Leno Wednesday night, along with shuttle commander Curt Brown and crewman Steve Lindsey. Leno, essentially pitching comedic batting practice to Glenn, tossed a few slow, fat lobs directly over the plate, but Glenn whiffed, responding with a series of jokes--including a crack about whether his Senate colleagues would provide enough funding to bring him home--that fell more or less flat. It was left to Brown, 42 (young enough to have spent his late nights...
...Leno was not the only one who got orbital schmooze time with the shuttle crew last week. Glenn also took a call from NASA administrator Daniel Goldin, who relayed a blunt message from Glenn's wife Annie: "You ain't going up again...