Word: lushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back too is the lush, year-end holiday party but with a '90s twist: quiet consumption, meaning that the posh hotels and clubs swell with revelers, the Cristal champagne ($190 a bottle) still flows, but gone are the ostentatious soirees of yore. Not unlike a Jil Sander suit: it's sleek, simple and elegant, but it still costs about...
...Pride and Prejudice (A&E) Having arrived just when it seemed Austen-mania could be borne no longer, this lush production radiantly revived the rage for Jane. With perfectly observed sets and a keen grasp of the subversive social themes that underlie Austen's comedy, this mini-series put its competition to shame. PBS' Moll Flanders...
...have these series managed to last through a couple of presidential administrations while shows like Fox's Lush Life--just as appallingly written as Married...with Children--disappear after just two episodes? Closer inspection reveals that most long-running shows offer entertainments utterly unlike the majority of dramas and comedies on television. On no other cop show but Walker, for instance, does the fight between good and evil get so primal as to involve face-offs between man and grizzly bear in the Utah mountains. Moreover, while most sitcoms in the '90s strive for some semblance of urbanity, Married...with...
...tour accompained only by the canned sounds of a DAT machine, and some of these singers cannot even duplicate their vocal stylings outside of a recording studio. For example, I once witnessed the pitiful spectacle of the trio Soul for Real failing miserably in their attempt to duplicate the lush harmonies of their hit single "Every Little Thing I Do" live in concert. The sounds of many current R&B groups may be similar to the unstable man-made elements--they can only exist through the intense efforts by producers with access to state of the art equipment, but cannot...
...gospel, a genre that should provide Houston with a vocal challenge worthy of her abilities. Streisand's Mirror (Nov. 12) also offers a mix; it's mostly music from the movie score, plus two pallid numbers by Bryan Adams (a duet with Barbra) and Richard Marx, with just one lush solo turn by Streisand. She's too good to be on the same CD, or in the same ZIP code, as Adams and Marx. On Evita (out now), Madonna finds herself a classier singing partner: her film co-star Antonio Banderas. His vocals have a gutsy charisma; as for Madonna...