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DIED. CONSUELO VELAZQUEZ, 88, classically trained Mexican pianist turned pop composer whose sultry World War II--era ballad Besame Mucho became one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, covered by such artists as Frank Sinatra and the Beatles; in Mexico City...
...Genocide blockbuster” is definitely not the easiest tagline to sell, especially for a film released during the packed holiday film season. It has been accomplished before—by Schindler’s List (1993) and, The Pianist (2002)—with both financial and critical success. Both of these Holocaust films depicted an atrocity with which general audiences felt vindicated and comfortable in their nation’s victorious intervention...
...genocide. He only tacitly implies his disconten“Genocide blockbuster” is definitely not the easiest tagline to sell, especially for a film released during the packed holiday film season. It has been accomplished before—by Schindler’s List (1993) and, The Pianist (2002)—with both financial and critical success. Both of these Holocaust films depicted an atrocity with which general audiences felt vindicated and comfortable in their nation’s victorious intervention...
Abbate boasts experience as a pianist and theater performer. She served as the dramaturge for this year’s production of “Don Giovanni” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York...
...hero, while his songs - or one of his songs - have turned him into TV's hottest sound-track artist, the bard of the Very Special Episode. The cult came first, and it feeds off more than one tragedy. Buckley's father, '70s folk singer Tim Buckley, abandoned his mother, pianist Mary Guibert, before Jeff was born, and father and son ended up meeting just once, in 1975, two months before the elder Buckley died of a heroin overdose at age 28. Jeff never spoke kindly of his dad, but he did inherit Tim's nimble vocal range and worked tirelessly...