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...eatery had to cancel a live performance by musician Merrie Amsterberg. Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre also canceled its opening night performance of Taming of the Shrew at the Loeb Experimental The-ater, sending a sold out crowd--as well as an eager cast--home disappointed...
...Elvis had found one particularly short-sighted way to generate quick income in his declining years: in 1973 he sold his entire catalog of recordings--the performances themselves--to RCA for $5 million, an absurdly low price considering that he had sold 1 billion records, more than any other musician in U.S. history. Just how good an investment this was for RCA is strikingly evident today: Elvis remains, in 1997, its most successful act (though this is perhaps as much a comment on the moribund label as on the singer). The sale left EPE with only the royalties from recordings...
...tunes seeping out of elevators, of knotty little songs like I'll Never Fall in Love Again and deliciously bitter ones like Walk On By being consigned to the easy-listening bins--the pop equivalent of assisted suicide--it takes a lot of nerve for a serious jazz musician like McCoy Tyner to record What the World Needs Now (Impulse!), an entire album of Bacharach compositions. And it takes even more nerve to start the album off with (They Long to Be) Close to You, on the face of it, one of the few irredeemably schmaltzy songs Bacharach...
...Carolyn, Altman (who co-wrote the story) presents lingering buffer shots of Seldom's jazz players at the Hey-Hey Club; an amusing ballot-stuffing sequence, headed by the ubiquitous Steve Buscemi as Blondie's sister's main squeeze; and even an odd story line about a young jazz musician and the pregnant 14-year-old he befriends. Rounding off the historical side are various pleasant touches: one political makes a mistake about a friend's wife ("Oh, Bess is Truman's wife!"); Blondie takes Mrs. Stilton to an old-fashioned movie theater...
...syrupy enough to serve with waffles, but it has touched enough people's hearts that the album has bounded up to the top position on the SoundScan album charts, where one normally expects to find discs by deceased hip-hop artists and Beatles anthologies. Carlisle, a Christian musician whose records have sold respectably for 20 years, has paid off his mortgage and bought a nicer vehicle. "As wonderful as this is," he says, "my life does not revolve around having a hit record. If it all went away, I'd sniffle for a couple of days, but that...