Word: ripoff
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Distinguishing between resurrection and ripoff can be a highly subjective matter. Performers are often fiercely possessive of their work and protective of their vision; such artists might be troubled at the thought of record-company executives altering their unfinished work after their death. In life Marvin Gaye fought Motown Records to release his classic, risk-taking soul album What's Going On just the way he wanted it. But in September, Motown will bring out a promising Gaye tribute CD on which other performers, from Madonna to Lisa Stansfield, offer renditions of his greatest songs, many drawn from that album...
...only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of ripoff -- not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...
Nantucket, which sits off Cape Cod a few miles beyond Martha's Vineyard (its would-be rival), is a great place for students trips during spring break. Because it's not the island's peak season yet, prices for food and lodging are relatively inexpensive. (They're a ripoff in the summertime...
...Georgian ripoff," he adds...
Director Christopher Frank's ripoff of Beneix's film draws on a better established tradition--the "nubile sexy teenagers on the beach" movie. The French add a new twist to this tried American tradition: breasts...