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...number" for Ally), and Elaine's friend files suit against a feminist mag after being fired for being Baptist. In the second show, Ally lands in jail again for getting into a sidewalk scuffle (she does a spin kick!), a terrible unisex bathroom accident befalls Stefan, Cage's pet frog, and Ally represents a woman being sued for throwing her best friend into a garbage canister...
...Beach Boys, he is responsible for some of the most ethereal and sophisticated pop of the classic-rock era, as well as some of its most purely joyful and (we must be honest) embarrassingly goofy. A recent four-CD boxed set annotated his masterpiece, the Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds, with countless versions of the original 13 tracks as well as just-let-the-tape-roll session outtakes: a monument both to the richness of Wilson's music and, by virtue of the fact that someone thought this was a commercial project, to the hard devotion that music still...
...someone singing flat. He asks to run through the song again and then abruptly calls a halt after maybe half a bar. He has identified the culprit, and quickly reworks the harmony to his satisfaction. This is the same in-command Brian you can hear at work on the Pet Sounds outtakes--pop's boy genius...
...tearing into his vocals on the up-tempo numbers, connecting to both the music and the audience. As the evening progresses, he grows comfortable enough to begin joking and ad-libbing between songs, revealing a sweet, almost childlike directness. Introducing his first encore, one of the great ballads from Pet Sounds, he says, "Back in the early '60s I used to sing like a girl, and here's a song I sang called Caroline, No." Earlier he had been getting aid (if not outright ghost-singing) on some of his songs' famous falsetto passages, but here he nails the high...
...Ireland and elsewhere. But this year, when his moral authority was systematically stripped, we could not help being aware of the governing he didn't do despite spectacular opportunities. He could dispatch planes to Iraq but not troops, nothing requiring broad debate and consent. He could not trade pet projects with Republicans in Congress--I'll give you school vouchers if you give me the patients' bill of rights--because he could not afford to annoy any Democrats. And so, in the end, there was no tobacco deal...