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...notion that people could be cloned smacks of social engineering of a catastrophic dimension, the results of which can only further erode humanity. DWIGHT MESSNER Louisville...
...emergence of the Ben Folds Five kicked off the best performance of the evening. Much like their recent release The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, Sunday night's performance was straight-faced, emotional and talented. Almost the entire set was taken from the new album, as Ben Folds impressively rocked out on the piano for "Narcolepsy," "Don't Change Your Plans" and "Army". But Folds was not going to leave without showing the brilliant irreverent side he has been known for, and finished the set with "Song for the Dumped," featuring the eternal lyric "Give me my money back...
...Folds Five have come of age. Their moody new release is a conceptual drift through the experience of their titular hero, a disconnected observer who feels more than he lets on. And in the delicate construction here, the band proves the same is true of itself. Messner aches with lush compositions that expand both BFF's sound (string arrangements accompany their trademark piano/bass/drum combination) and their identity. Sure, "punk rock for sissies" was a fun label for their often-silly post-kitsch nods to pissed-off ex-boyfriends and love-struck goofballs, but it hardly accommodates the stylish, lingering sway...
AILING. TAMMY FAYE MESSNER, 54, former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker; with colon cancer. Her current husband, Roe Messner, sentenced to prison last week for bankruptcy fraud, has prostate cancer...
...Tammy Faye Messner, it seems, TV isn't the same if you don't ask for money. After six weeks on a regular show, God's gift to the mascara industry has quit. The Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show, airing in almost half the country, proved to be too much for the former wife of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, especially while husband Roe Messner faces fraud charges...