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...girls of Calcutta The Working Girl star has raised millions of dollars for female orphans in India's teeming city, and cut a benefit all-star CD in 2002, Voices of Hope, with Penelope Cruz, Bob Dylan, Sting, Alanis Morissette, Ricky Martin, Antonio Banderas, Elton John, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo...
...didn't begin until the Fat Guys started singing. When Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, along with a 200-strong orchestra, wowed 'em with vocal skyrockets like Nessun dorma, opera hit high C--and a merchandising concept was born...
When Mom wants her Celine Dion, Dad wants Placido and Johnny demands Ja Rule, it used to take three stereos to satisfy all. Now comes the Yamaha MusicCast, a wireless, digital home music system, out in June. MusicCast is based on the same Wi-Fi technology that powers many PC networks, using a server, CD player/recorder and hard drive to store hundreds of hours of music. Once downloaded from your CDs, music is sent to as many as seven small receivers, or clients. Five can be wireless, and each can power a pair of wired speakers. MusicCast can simultaneously transmit...
...KNIGHTED. PLACIDO DOMINGO, 61, Spanish tenor with 119 opera roles, 100 recordings and nine Grammy awards to his name; at the British embassy in Washington, D.C. He received the honorary knighthood?a special version of the title given to non-Britons?for his "massive contributions" to the arts and for his charity work...
...skimming at the surface of things, who wouldn’t prefer to look at Lana Turner? This is not to say that Jeffry photographed only actors and the theater—the show is a nice snapshot of other aspects of culture. Harry Belafonte, John Cage, Johnny Cash, Placido Domingo, Benny Goodman and Aaron Copland (photographed together), Anne Sexton—the list goes on, and the portraits are all agreeable to look upon. Cash, with his guitar jutting out of the page, is an interesting contrast to the placid Belafonte. But it is a juxtaposition that you will...