Word: naomi
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...Foster is more than believable. In spite of this, the film’s writer, David Benioff (“25th Hour”), leaves little room for McGregor to delve into his character’s idiosyncrasies. Perhaps the film’s most underused resource is Naomi Watts. Watts plays Lila, Dr. Foster’s once suicidal painter-girlfriend. However, her character adds so little to the storyline, one wonders if her only purpose is to serve as eye candy for the testosterone-charged twenty-something viewer. Her subplot—Dr. Foster discovers that Lila...
Just this Christmas past, Naomi Judd, a local girl made very good indeed, went back home to Ashland, Ky. She stopped off at the white bungalow where she had been raised, then moved on to Jane's beauty salon on 13th Street to "get a manicure, now that I have this diamond ring." At 39, Naomi Judd had no great familiarity with gems or with manicures--this was her first--and she was barely getting accustomed to celebrity. "I heard you were making it big as a singer, and I pictured you in a gingham dress," said a friend...
...should be said flat-out then: Naomi Judd and her daughter Wynonna, 21, are not only good enough to be jealous of, they are good enough to kick a little life into the listless country scene. "Disk jockeys are saying the Judds saved country music," says Naomi, in a slightly incredulous tone. It is at least true that the sweet-flowing harmonies of this mother-and-daughter act have earned them a brace of awards, including a 1985 Grammy, and sprightly record sales and airplay. They have also roped in a wide audience all the way from down-home...
...from adept musicianship and vocals that ease around, then animate the lyrics like a spring breeze blowing a window curtain. The album gives the impression of a kind of spiritual centering the Judds draw not just from music but from the way they live. "We are two generations," says Naomi, "and we play off each other." She listens to and learns from Elvis, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, and the Ink Spots. Wynonna admires singers as disparate as Nat King Cole and Bonnie Raitt. The Judds will cross any musical boundaries, but as they tell it, their real strength comes from...
...Growing up in Ashland gave me a sense of who I was and where I came from," says Naomi, who married young and had Wynonna at 18. In 1968 she left Kentucky for the West Coast, where she modeled, worked as a secretary and managed a health-food store in West Hollywood, all the while proudly holding on to her lineage. "What's your sign?" someone would ask her. The reply was simply "Baptist." After a divorce and two prolonged stints in California, Naomi, Wynonna and Younger Daughter Ashley headed home for good. Ask Wynonna what the Judds' music would...