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...Harlem, where he was born, "your manhood was proved by your ability to make either the women scream or the men run. I was good at making women scream by singing." After the 1972 Everybody Plays the Fool went gold, Gooding moved his family to California and was a Motown solo artist from 1978 until 1983. He and his wife Shirley were divorced for 15 years--"We were too young to be married," he explains--but they reunited two years ago. "Before Cuba Jr. won," says the proud dad, "it was a great time in my life. Now, this...
...culture channel surfer on uppers. Jackie is a sweet-toned lyric soprano; Ari, a bass-baritone, is a smarmy lounge lizard (one of his big arias is marked in the score, "Freely sung, a la Dean Martin"). The music they sing jumps joltingly from folk rock to Motown to big-band jazz, all kaleidoscopically orchestrated for a 19-piece pit band with two percussionists. And although the tone is mostly light and lively, an unexpectedly affecting streak of melancholy surfaces whenever Jackie sings of her lost life as First Lady...
...million. The 500-plus acres are near Disney chairman Michael Eisner's home, although presumably they won't be vacationing together as they have in the past. In Malibu, California, Ovitz is buying a few acres of property on a seaside bluff, a $5 million parcel belonging to Motown mogul Berry Gordy. Malibu property has a distressing habit of sliding into the sea or turning into charcoal, yet this particular purchase caused great chagrin to Ovitz's former Creative Artists partner Ron Meyer, now president of Universal. Seems Meyer had unwarily confided in Ovitz that he absolutely coveted the property...
...comes with respect, and men do a lot of crying. "Done 'bout run out of tears," he coos on Talk to Me, a pop-soul-blues number featuring Clapton on guitar. "The thing that makes Babyface special is the way he talks about love," says Andre Harrell, president of Motown Records. "He says everything a woman wants to hear. He's the best male interpreter of romance there...
Carpenter could be the jolliest A student at a Seven Sisters college. For A Place in the World (Columbia) she's written tunes that are instantly likable--so shoot her--and reminiscent of early Beatles or rollicking Motown. But she twists the old feelings even as she exploits them. The perky beat and ersatz-inane lyrics of I Want to Be Your Girlfriend tell you that even for mature women in the '90s, love can feel like a teen crush, pulsing to a Buddy Holly-style jingle...