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Part of the thrill of reading his tales of family life as one of six children is constantly wondering, Can that possibly be true? Does his father really hoard expired foodstuffs and eat them rotten? Is his brother Paul truly the profane white trash Sedaris describes? Could his mother have actually been that surly? Where other memoir writers, even the funny ones, slink to the sentimental, Sedaris heads the other way. And yet he portrays these characters with unjudging sympathy. He's tender about them...
High-minded as fado may be in Branco's hands, the style had the rotten luck to be endorsed by the dictators who ruled Portugal for almost 50 years. For many Portuguese, the genre carried the odor of fascism long after a 1974 revolution restored democracy. "It took 20 years for [fado] to grow up again, to be civilized music again," says Branco. Perhaps that accounts for the sense that even when she sings of desolation, Branco's delivery seems animated by the pleasure of recovering something lost. For her listeners, the pleasure lies in hearing a venerable art form...
There have certainly been other great moments to be in U2 over the course of the past two decades. The band's previous outing, the Popmart tour--when the boys from Dublin appeared in a huge onstage lemon and got pelted by (metaphorical) rotten fruit by critics in the U.S.--probably wasn't one of them. But their latest CD, All That You Can't Leave Behind, which was released last October, went to No. 1 in 32 countries, won the band three Grammys and helped spark an acclaimed, sold-out tour. Building on the fresh momentum, U2 is gearing...
...decline of Vicious, who began as a lower-class Pistols devotee who identified with the anger and frustration inherent in punk rock. Although Vicious was a prototypical fan of punk rock, he did not mesh well as bassist for the band. Bandmates Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Johnny Rotten had respective fantasies of rock and roll stardom—Jones was even an admitted fan of the Top 40 who often played “Stairway to Heaven” on his guitar—and founded the band under Malcolm McLaren’s direction with the explicit knowledge...
...upcoming movie star efforts is the one most distanced from real life. From the Beatles to David Bowie to the Sex Pistols to Eminem, pop has long been as much about theater as music. Pop stars assume fictional personalities (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Ziggy Stardust, Johnny Rotten, Slim Shady) and audiences laugh or boo or scream at both the character and the real performer. When the multitudes lend their ears and eyes to Russell Crowe as Maximus the Gladiator, the same fusion of real star and imaginary hero takes place; its both Crowe and Maximus they...