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...TIME GOES BY: Singers like Rod Stewart and Mandy Moore try to find new life in old standards...
...that it's possible to get attention for doing what you have always done, the new crop of career revisionists is trying to get attention for doing what Tony Bennett has always done: sing standards. Former teen angel Mandy Moore has a new standards album; even legendary cradle robber Rod Stewart has two. Standards are now perceived as the foolproof way for singers to flex their urbanity and be congratulated on their good taste while also appealing to those aging boomers who still roam the record racks...
...crop of career revisionists is trying to get attention for doing what Tony Bennett has always done: sing standards. Robbie Williams sold millions crooning the classics with Swing When You're Winning in 2001; former teen angel Mandy Moore has a new standards album; even legendary cradle robber Rod Stewart has two. Standards are now perceived as the foolproof way for singers to flex their urbanity and be congratulated on their good taste while also appealing to those aging boomers who still roam the record racks. It has worked for Stewart, financially at least. Having rasped his way through...
...Rod is at the top of his game. Stick him in the middle of the lineup, and you won’t see a drop off from the rest of the team. Whoever replaces Manny in left will do the job. Jose Guillen or Raul Mondesi—the Red Sox will have the money to pay a pretty good player if they can dump Manny’s $20 million and Nomar’s $11.5 million...
...nation can sign a good defender to replace Manny in left, and A-Rod replaces Nomar at shortstop, look out, Brenda Lee. Put your party hats on Boston, because 2004 will replace 1918 in sports vernacular for the remainder of history. And if the Red Sox don’t win, blame Brenda. She’s evil...