Word: sinatras
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Hate the Yankees, at the very least, because so many actual New Yorkers still do. Think about all of the Met fans who are treated like second-class citizens in their own city, who have to put up with unrelenting strains of a Sinatra classic with which they can no longer identify because it has become the Yankee theme song. Think about what it will feel like for them—for us—when Mayor Giuliani, a lifelong Yankee fan, gives them the Bronx Bombers the key to the city and thanks them for bringing the city...
...parties, to discos, stay up late. It is hard to keep playing at the same level. You suffer a lot. I think I was one of the few who played more than 20 years at the same level. That's why I am Pele. We have only one Frank Sinatra, only one Beethoven, only one Pele...
...Hikaru, hails from Manhattan. The old-school term world music is a joke, a wedge, a way of separating English-language performers from the rest of the planet. But there has always been crossover. In 1958 Dean Martin scored a hit with the Italian tune Volare; in 1967 Frank Sinatra recorded an album of songs by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim. Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love is based on the 18th century French ballad Plaisir d'amour. Such music became world music only when darker-skinned folks sang...
...with a proclivity for choosing edgy characters. He has worked for film directors Martin Scorsese (Bringing Out the Dead) and Stanley Tucci (Big Night). He appeared on Broadway in the title role of Paul Simon's short-lived production The Capeman, during which Simon compared Anthony to a young Sinatra...
There's a sweet dizziness to Cantopop fandom that's reminiscent of the innocent bobby-sox frenzy of the Sinatra years. At Lau concerts, his fans hold up flash cards that spell out his name in English; a group of votaries rented a minibus and trailed him from one Taiwan concert to the next. (In return, each year around his birthday, Lau attends parties thrown by his fan clubs.) If fans don't stalk the stars, the insatiable paparazzi do. "They follow me everywhere," says Leslie Cheung. "I don't even put my litter outside the house anymore. People...