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...Mary Lou" label is inevitable. But she may lack the perkiness factor that has kept Retton in the public eye. The '84 champ hasn't stopped smiling since Los Angeles, but Patterson barely showed any enamel when a group of cameramen asked her to flash her medal and shine after the victory. "Mary Lou was an open book," says Bela Karolyi, who coached Retton and whose wife Martha put together this year's women's team. "Carly is a little more stubborn." Stubborn enough to keep winning meets and--unlike many young, burned-out women's champions--perhaps defend...
...must say, a perfect vehicle for director Michael Mann's highly stylized gifts. He has always been a creature of the night (Thief, Heat), to which he habitually imparts a high-gloss shine that's at once chilly and seductive. He also has a predilection for cross-cultural--and cross-class--criminality (here waspy Vincent is rubbing out black and Hispanic drug dealers who may be about to sing to the feds). And for jazzy scores...
...Iraq slips into ethnic violence. Asked how he plans to forge the new security forces in the midst of Iraq's upheaval, Petraeus says: "Patiently, over time, by fostering lots of dialogue." That dialogue is at least something in which Petraeus - talkative, charming and sociable - is likely to shine...
...album also showed that Charles could lay his tortured vocal style on such chestnuts as the Arlen-Mercer ?Come Rain or Come Shine? and Irving Berlin?s ?Alexander?s Ragtime Band.? That?s an amazing cut. Written as a ?coon song? (minstrel number) in 1911, Charles made it a black song; he transformed this antique march into a big-band raver. The band (Burns did the brassy, bluesy charts) plays the melody and Charles comes in an antiphonal bar later, bleating "Come on an' hear!" By the end of the chorus he's quoting his own "This Little Girl...
...accomplished cellist, Lockwood examines the composer’s sketchbooks and autograph manuscripts to shine light upon Beethoven’s compositional methods. He investigates first Beethoven’s music, and only then, his life...