Word: ono
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's really needed is a revamped publicity campaign, something that says Radcliffe is a part of history, kind of like Fleetwood Mac, Yoko Ono, hoop skirts and the My Lai Massacre. Radcliffe also might huddle with Elvis's people, perhaps if you killed the school, more people would think it's alive...
...Yoko Ono mourns John Lennon in a sweet if silly musical...
...ARTIST, YOKO ONO IS BEST known for marrying well. Although she has explored at least a dozen art forms and won plaudits in several -- in 1981, for example, she shared a Grammy with John Lennon for their album Double Fantasy, and in 1989 the Whitney Museum mounted a retrospective of her conceptual art -- her creative endeavors are overshadowed by her status as Lennon's widow. Ono seems reconciled to that reality. Indeed, she embraces it in New York Rock, an off-Broadway musical about coming to terms with the death of a loved...
While it is unlikely the show would have been staged but for the curiosity value of its author, Ono does have talent. Abler at providing catchy musical hooks than at building ballads to emotional peaks, she has assembled (and partly recycled) a likable score free of her trademark screeching. Most of the lyrics clank, but a few are funny or touching. A compelling group stomp called I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window deftly captures the nihilistic self-loathing of many street kids. At such moments, New York Rock seems pertinent. Otherwise, despite a production...
...those same people are cuddling up in front of the TV to watch, teary-eyed, as Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney finally embrace, or to see miniseries like "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City." a romantic tribute to 1970s San Francisco...