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During the Motown 25 anniversary show, Michael Jackson joined his brothers for a brief Jackson Five reunion, then appeared solo in bolo tie. The song Billie Jean began and so did Jacko's feet. He produced a Gumby-legged rock ballet, then topped it off with his moonwalk. The move created such a buzz that when the tape of the live show was televised, 47 million viewers dropped...
...DIED. JOHNNY GRIFFITH, 66, classically trained musician and pioneering keyboard wizard for the 1960s Motown band Funk Brothers, who played on legendary hits such as the Supremes' Stop in the Name of Love and Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through the Grapevine; in Detroit. As one of the pioneers of the Motown sound, a fusion of soul, gospel and pop, Griffith and the Funk Brothers have had a lasting impact on popular music trends through the past four decades...
Dreams, on the other hand, is old-school nostalgia: a misty-lens look at the past that shows how the '60s' social change roiled one blue-collar family: Mom is dissatisfied; Dad feels the patriarchy slipping away; daughter Meg is seduced by the forbidden libidinal beat of Motown. The Bandstand story line, with archival footage courtesy of co-producer Dick Clark, provides a baby-boomer-friendly sound track. (On TV, American history is the history of TV.) Plots about feminism and civil rights flatter us about how far we have come. And the blue-collar, Catholic setting is free...
...aforementioned nostalgia show (also a trend we'll be seeing more of) -looked well-crafted, almost movie-like, but also seemed to hit exactly every cliche note you expect from something set in the early '60s: the Cleaverish white kids discovering their rebellious souls to the tune of Motown, the repressed Betty Crocker mom and authoritarian dad (with a sweet streak, of course) and - there's an FCC regulation requiring this, I think - the Kennedy assassination playing a major role. "Boomtown," a cop show set in LA -sorry, according to the trailer, "the phrase 'cop show' doesn't apply...
...least 10 years off. Hybrids still have a major hurdle to overcome: sticker shock (more on that later). But for car buyers who want to do their part for the environment and are willing pay a few grand extra to do it, hybrids are the only game in Motown...