Word: musician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happy nuptials will take place in Paris on Valentine's Day, to the strains of Kamasutra, a symphony Prince has commissioned from his band, the New Power Generation. Further details--what Mayte's married name will be and if she will wear higher heels than the mercurial musician at the ceremony--are scant, but all will be revealed on Prince's Website, to be launched on the wedding...
...does Natchez see himself becoming? "Professional musician would be nice, but I don't know if I can do that yet. I'd love to play with Skavoovie for as long as it lasts, for the rest of my life, because it's so much...
...dealer, cheats on his wife Loli (Victoria Abril) but insists--men are such romantics--that she is ever faithful to him. As his mistress replies wearily, "That's probably what my husband says to his mistress about me." Loli is indeed constant, until she meets Marijo (Balasko), a butch musician. Marijo fulfills all the popular lesbian stereotypes: she has short hair, a gruff manner and a weight problem; in the kitchen she's better with wrenches than with sauces. But she also has a knack for intimacy, and that's what Loli desperately needs. A good-night kiss from Marijo...
Everyone agrees that no matter how attractive the musician, if the performance is lacking, the career will not take off. Says Harnoy, the cellist whose bodice-baring Victorian dresses sometimes distract attention from her accomplished playing: "If this is getting albums sold, great. But I don't think if somebody buys my album because they like the picture, they will buy the next album because they like the picture. If the music is not pleasing them, there are only so many pictures they want to have...
...Female musicians with a cannily erotic appeal could always be found--in the movies. Think of Ingrid Bergman, who played the femme fatale pianist who broke up Leslie Howard's marriage in the 1939 movie Intermezzo, or Amy Irving, who went mano a mano on the ivories with Richard Dreyfuss in 1980's The Competition. Prominent women instrumentalists have been much rarer in real life. During the first half of the 20th century, the severely beautiful Erica Morini, who died last month at 91, was one of the few who could lay claim to first-rank status. And Morini bristled...