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Holiday dwelled and worked, however, on a plane of pure, primal feeling, and by that standard -- on her level -- this package contains peerless music. Like a superb actress, Holiday knew how to internalize her turmoil. She had too much pride in her womanhood, her race and her artistry to turn herself into a sorry paradigm of self-pity. Rather she could make each song she sang a personal testament -- a confession, a regret, a reverie. She did not trade on her personal devastation. She used it till the end, to drive her artistry...
Joseph Mitchell's peerless reportage is collected...
...related in a 65-song set on three CDs. Owned by Florence Greenberg, a New Jersey mom, the diskery made its rep with girl groups (the Shirelles) and treble rousers (the Isley Brothers, the Kingsmen). It then officiated at the marriage of gospel and pop, with Dionne Warwick selling peerless Burt Bacharach ballads. The set includes many savory hits and some obscure gems: Bacharach's prime plaint I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself and a King Curtis tune called Potatoe Chips (Dan Quayle take note...
WRITING IS A SIMPLE, RHYTHMIC EXERcise, like hitting a major-league curve ball, and sometimes you go 0 for June. The usually peerless Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show, two funny, sad, marvelously human novels about the Southwest, misses badly with THE EVENING STAR (Simon & Schuster; $23). The new novel, a sequel to Terms of Endearment, is big, flabby and aimless. It picks up Terms' Aurora Greenway in her 70s and deals lengthily with the impotence of her 80-year-old lover, who has taken to exposing himself. There's more, equally jokey and unfunny...
...MADE CARTOONS OUT OF THE JACKsons and Hulk Hogan. Why not try it in reverse, fleshing out a peerless kidvid cartoon of the '60s? Here's why. A few years back, Dave Thomas and Sally Kellerman starred as a live-action BORIS AND NATASHA, the spy-in-the-face nemeses of Jay Ward's immortal Rocky and Bullwinkle. Charles Martin Smith's film was never released, but it is now being aired on Showtime. Because the small screen has laxer standards for comedy (after all . . . Full House?), you may briefly indulge the strenuously facetious antics, the wisenheimer narration, the cameos...