Word: lions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...record as Governor, supporters claim, foreshadowed a lion's share of the "Contract with America," from welfare reform, which Wilson has applied incrementally every year, to tax cuts, which he proposed in his current budget. On crime, Wilson was a leader of the three-strikes-you're-out movement. On immigration, he earned more points with conservatives by spearheading Proposition 187, which, if upheld by the courts, will deny schooling and other state services to illegals. But Wilson's biggest achievement as Governor has been the fiscal stabilization of California with a budget ax that year after year has held...
...GAME LAD, SO WHEN ELTON John was asked to write songs for The Lion King, he said why not. In a career that began 30 years ago with the band Bluesology and thus spans most of the rock era, John had worked and lived in the grand and sordid rock-star tradition: written hundreds of songs, sold albums in the hundred millions, cavorted onstage in tuxes and plumes, dared to announce his bisexuality, endured rehab for alcoholism, cocaine addiction, bulimia. Nothing human was alien to him. But as he began the task of composing melodies to Tim Rice's words...
...came out fine. The Lion King album sold 7 million copies, and the hit single Can You Feel the Love Tonight? earned John a Grammy last week for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (one of three Lion King Grammys). He's the prohibitive favorite to win an Oscar later this month: of the five nominees for Best Original Song, three are numbers from The Lion King. And he has a new generation of groupies: the six-year-olds who accost him in airports and tell him they love the movie's songs. "That's exactly what I wrote...
Mather House. Kammerton, featuringbaroque flutist Na'ama Lion, baroque violinistGuiomar Turgeon, baroque cellist Annika Pflugerand harpsichordist Todd Beckham, offers a programof baroque music from England. Master's Residence,3 p.m. Free...
...article she read last year, Salm links any actor or actress to Kevin bacon within six steps or less. For example, a past .plan revealed, "Macaulay Culkin was in Getting Even with Dad with Ted Danson who was in Made in America with Whoopi Goldberg who was in The Lion King with James Earl Jones who was in JFK with Kevin Bacon." Salm remarks, "I invite people to e-mail me if they think of shorter ways to do the ones I have posted...I change my .plan a few times a week, usually when I think of a really...