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...Living Color days. But this is more than a stunt. He carves a complex character out of what could have been hagiography. Foxx's performance, like the film, is sympathetic but not sentimental. It is as true as the blues to Charles' pain, as ecstatic as rock 'n' roll to his triumph. It sings, and it swings. --By Richard Corliss
...special The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was a Mick Jagger-- helmed vanity project that somehow went horribly right. The chaotic show--a hybrid of circus and rock concert with some of the hottest acts in swinging London (John Lennon, the Who)--was shelved in the 1960s and not released on video until 1996. The new DVD adds commentary from Jagger, Yoko Ono and others. Keith Richards mumbles the best line: "I remember not remembering everything towards the end." But watching a young Jagger lead the Stones through sublimely insolent versions of You Can't Always Get What...
...toward Africa; Gianfranco Ferré showed an uncharacteristically wearable collection of animal prints. And in Milan, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, inspired by a recent trip to Botswana, presented one of their best collections in many seasons, with snakeskin coats and zebra-striped chiffon dresses. They're on a commercial roll; several days later, the company announced in its latest annual report double-digit growth in both profit and sales...
...business more aggressively. By opting not to hear the last-possible appeal of an antitrust ruling against MasterCard and Visa, the Supreme Court ended a six-year legal battle over how the two market leaders blocked rivals from partnering with card-issuing banks. American Express announced that it would roll out credit cards with MBNA, and Discover is pursuing new partners too. The change comes at a time when consumers are already overwhelmed with pitches for new plastic--in the second quarter, a record 1.4 billion mailings went out, according to direct-mail tracker Synovate. That means the average household...
JUST AS YOU WERE GETTING ready to roll up your sleeve for your annual flu shot, the government announced last week that there would not be enough serum to go around...