Word: musician
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...with sadness that i read of the death of Ray Conniff [MILESTONES, Oct. 28], a gifted musician, composer and bandleader. Lesser people leave footprints in the sand; Conniff's, however, are indelible. I first heard a Conniff record in 1957 and since then have been a collector of his recordings--even today. JACK HEYMANN Pretoria...
...living peacefully with her family in what looks like Vietnam. One day soldiers arrive (conspicuously similar to American G.I.s) and destroy the village. She flees through the jungle and across the sea. She arrives at a modern city with dark, bedraggled citizens under constant surveillance. She meets a street musician, who after being arrested by the fascist police force, leaves her with child. At the end, the cry of the newborn continues the father's song...
...Musician gets harrased...
...ironic that the musician who has capitalized most on the predominantly Caucasian subculture of cool kids tripping out on Thai and Indian beaches would himself be Asian, but that's precisely what has happened. As soon as Tokyo-born Tsuyoshi Suzuki began riding the circuit of travel and partying between Tokyo, Goa and Koh Phangan, he realized he had found an alternative way of living, and, more importantly for hundreds of thousands of clubbers and millions of music fans who would come to know him by his nom de decks DJ Tsuyoshi, a dynamic and new approach to making music...
Equal credit goes to director Curtis Hanson and producer Brian Grazer for making 8 Mile what the Spears and Carey films failed to be: a moderately engaging, not entirely frivolous portrait of a troubled young musician sculpting an identity out of conflicting ambitions and personal limitations. Also present are a plethora of clichés—condemnations from disapproving loved ones, initial performance anxiety and closing credits that just happen to be accompanied by the musician’s most recent single. Despite all this, 8 Mile capitalizes on its strong supporting cast and top notch production values...