Word: mambo
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...pristine images provided by Peter Pau, displays dishy Hong Kong stars Daniel Wu and Shu Qi at their most engaging, but can't get much juice out of a rich-boy-kookie-girl showbiz fable. More disappointing was another Shu Qi effort, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Taiwanese Millenium Mambo. This sketch of a cranky, 10-year affair offers no insight into the psychology of pretty girls who love rotten guys; it was also visually meandering?cinematically stillborn...
...Cuban Perez Prado got America dancing sideways to mambo and cha-cha rhythms with his own "Patricia" and "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (a French tune by Louiguy and Jacques Larue). A slew of instrumental hits traded in wanderlust: "Lisbon Antigua" (by Raul Portela, Jose Galhardo and Amaduedo Vale, recorded by Nelson Riddle), "The Poor People of Paris" (Marguerite Monnot's "La Goualante De Pauvre Jean," covered by Les Baxter), "Never on Sunday (Manos Hadjidakis), "Petite Fleur" (composed by expatriate jazz lion Sidney Bechet and Fernand Bonifay, and a 1959 hit for Chris Barber...
Tito Puente 77 The mambo king won five Grammys in a 50-year reign...
...During Monday's production meeting, Smith is hopeful that Tom Hanks will agree to read an appreciation of the Declaration of Independence. By Tuesday, Hanks has declined; by Saturday, Michael Douglas is a maybe. Smith has also made the rather risky decision to play "Mambo No. 5" - a song about womanizing - in the convention hall to keep up delegates' enthusiasm between speeches. "Obviously we're not using the original lyric," says Smith, who plans to rewrite the song with names of states instead of names of women. For Smith, equal parts entertainer and Democrat, that's the trick: Taking...
DIED. TITO PUENTE, 77, mambo king and extroverted percussionist who made 119 albums during his six-decade career and won his fifth Grammy this year; in New York City. (See Eulogy, below...