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...show is snappily shot and makes good use of its retro sound track--it's so Miami bright and Motown cool, you should watch it with shades on--but, more important, it has Leonard's sense of the imperfections of humanity. It has good guys and bad guys, but they share similar flaws and yearnings. The show's moral center is Karen's dad (Robert Forster), a former marshal who has a weekly card game with a group of ex-cons. Learning that Karen's new boyfriend may be involved in shady dealings, he just says, "Takes all kinds...
...corporation to recognize that its universe has changed, and major labels don't exactly turn on a dime. For Martin Bandier, chairman and CEO of EMI Music Publishing, the dime dropped three years ago when his 11-year-old son Max gave him a present: his 100 favorite Motown songs. "I said, 'But we have hundreds of copies!'" Bandier recalls. "He said, 'This is in a different place--on my hard drive.' It was scary." Bandier immediately convened a war council to figure out how to protect EMI's precious song catalog, which ranges from Judy Garland to Norah Jones...
DIED. CHOLLY ATKINS, 89, pristinely polished, graceful tap stylist turned choreographer who, as part of artistic development at Motown, engineered the images, costumes and dance movements of such acts as Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles; in Las Vegas...
DIED. EDWIN STARR, 61, burly Motown soul singer; of a heart attack; at his home in Nottingham, England. The Nashville native gained fame with hits such as Agent Double-O Soul, but will be best remembered for his Grammy-winning 1970 hit War, which included the lyrics "War, what is it good for?/Absolutely nothing...
...album takes the band in new directions of sixties soul and Motown, leaving behind their reverb-filled punk-pop. Its perplexing title isn’t as philosophical as it may sound...