Word: retro
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...started in the bathhouses of Manhattan and sang a famous goodbye serenade to Johnny Carson. Along the way Bette Midler, 60, has built a career out of making retro cool, from films like For the Boys to her latest CD, Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook. The Divine Miss M spoke with TIME's Richard Zoglin about Mae West, Las Vegas and the next generation of divas...
...range of talents was also clearly a draw. She sings powerful and sexy covers of blues classics like Joe Tex's I Want To (Do Everything For You) and Lowman Pauling's Say It. And her own compositions, such as the jazzy While I Wait for You and the retro '50s-ish Caught Up (performed with Memphis Horns founder Wayne Jackson, who played with Elvis and Aretha Franklin), showcase her songwriting skills. Her quiet duet with Daniel Lanois, in the waltz La Merveille, is a heartfelt tribute to her Francophone heritage...
...RENEGADE AND RETRO...
...R.C.Try this one on: Star Wars was pioneering in its technology but retro in its content. In the movies that you and I saw when we were growing up, movies were trying to be adult. And one of the things that Star Wars did was validate the Saturday-matinee impulse in filmmakers-which meant that there were a lot fewer exciting films by the best filmmakers that were made for adults...
...vintage video games. On April 1, Japan's Product Safety of Electrical Appliances and Materials Law (PSE), designed to prevent electrical fires, will prohibit the resale of 259 types of electrical goods made before April 2001?including some of the most coveted video-game machines. "It's stupid," fumes retro gamer Hiroshi Yamano, while shopping at the Super Potato secondhand-game shop in Akihabara, Tokyo's nerd mecca. "Who do they think they are protecting...