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...those phone-for-sex girls, and - with five high-voltage videos tossed in for good measure - this has been quite sufficient, thanks. Like a Virgin, released at Christmastime, has already sold 3.5 million copies and was No. 1 album in the country for three weeks running. Produced by Nile Rodgers, who funkified David Bowie not so long ago, the record is as slick as a dance floor, which is the place where it sounds best. Songs like the title track ("Like a virgin, ooh, ooh . . . Feels so good inside") and Material Girl ("Some boys try and some boys...
...that he is dying of cancer. The illness has drawn his other son, Cooper, and daughter-in-law to the family mansion to try to win first place in line for his estate-"Twenty-eight thousand acres," as Big Daddy boasts, "of the richest land outside of the Valley Nile...
Snowdon traveled to India at the request of the film's producers, John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin. He had photographed some of their Agatha Christie projects (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Evil Under the Sun), and jumped at the chance to work with Lean. On the set he was free to wander, plucking shots of the 235 crew members and a cast that includes Dame Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Judy (My Brilliant Career) Davis, Indian Actor Victor Banerjee and, of course, Sir Alec Guinness. Guinness's career has been entwined with Lean...
...FIRST GLANCE. Laune Anderson's second album, Mister Heartbreak, seems like a copout. After all, what does an sustere musician like Anderson, who relies on the simple, minimalistic beauty of her melodies, need with such dense trendy musicians like Adrian Belew (who has worked with the Talking Heads ) and Nile Rodgers (who has worked with David Bowie)? And way is an overblown, self-conscious "artist" like Peter Gabriel collaborating and singing backup vocals on some of the songs...
...even the most "American" of Eakins' paintings-his rowing scenes on the Schuylkill River, so astute in their blending of lyrical responses with the nuts and bolts of anatomy and structure-were partly inspired by Gérôme's exotic canvases of barges on the Nile...