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What's remarkable about Boyz II Men is that its unabashed romanticism never bogs down the members' considerable musical skill. Motown is their label, and with their harmonies and look-alike outfits, they hark back to the classic Motown vocal groups like the Temptations. The Boyz released their debut CD just after the Milli Vanilli lip-synching scandal. It was a cynical time for pop music. Vanilla Ice had a best-selling pseudo-rap album; New Kids on the Block had gone multiplatinum. Were there any real singers left? Was everyone as fake as Rob and Fab's hair extensions...
...wife/ Raise a family." Boyz II Men has found a niche by seeming to be blissfully unaware of its cultural surroundings. "America right now is being bombarded with reality, whether it's talk shows or rap or trials on TV or C-SPAN," says Jheryl Busby, president of Motown. "This is a group that once again is introducing us to fantasy. Love affairs. Romance...
...been peeling away the layers and looking at who I am and what I grew up listening to." Wilson learned about the ingredients for Blue Light's gumbo of jazz, blues and folk as a child in Jackson, Mississippi. Her father was a jazz guitarist, and she remembers Motown, Bob Dylan and classical music being played around the house. With this background, Wilson brings a lot of sophistication and insight to the songs she sings. Aware of her own musicianship, she says that the contributions of women jazz singers are not properly recognized. "People like Billie Holiday, Betty Carter, Ella...
...minute TV comedy. These sequels are not so much extensions of the original as they are dupes, with the tiniest tweaks of gags and attitude; this time, in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, the nuns do a rap number in addition to '60s Motown. These films are also "family" pictures, which means they bear a message -- though the message can be severe in the Home Alone '90s. Beethoven's 2nd teaches that if you mess with a pooch and his humans, you can get creamed by a house, dropped off a cliff or neutered. Ah, the new family...
...Johannesburg, Bonn and the Caribbean, where he earned an Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on the Grenada invasion. McWhirter returned to the States in 1988 as a senior business correspondent and became Detroit bureau chief in 1991. Just in time, he says, to witness the revival of Motown. "It was like watching dying patients come back to life...