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...Meredith Brooks and Alanis Morissette are installed as icons of woman power (alongside real artist-activists like Tori Amos) simply because they sing about bad moods or boyfriends who have dumped them. In the late '60s, when the label was applied more sparingly, no one thought to call Nancy Sinatra a feminist, and yet if she recorded These Boots Are Made for Walkin' in 1998, she'd probably find herself headlining the Lilith Fair...
Case-in-point: Witness last month's orgy of mourning surrounding the death of Frank Sinatra. Despite all of the tribute albums, concerts and books already dedicated to him during his life, oceans of ink about the Chairman of the Board were spilled on the pages of every magazine from Rolling Stone to the New York Review of Books...
...things considered though, Sinatra was relatively lucky. At least he was able to get a sense for the public's adoration for him while still alive. Many of his fellow celebrities aren't so lucky. Often, the celebrated pass to the hereafter without fully realizing the extent of their impact. Say what you will about Elton John's musical tribute to Diana, he was right when he sang that the Princess's countrymen will miss her "more than [she would] ever know...
...according to FORTUNE magazine, added $10 billion to the economy. What makes him a perfect pitchman for absolutely anything (Nike, Gatorade, McDonald's, Oakley, Rayovac, WorldCom...) is that he wins. While his skills were once those of Baryshnikov, age and triple-teaming defenses have grounded him. So, like Sinatra after he lost his crooning voice, Jordan, with delimited skills, developed an even better game. Through practice, his fadeaway jumper, passing and defense are twice as good as when he started in the league. During the last seconds of the play-off series with the Pacers, Bird told his team...
...subscribing to PEOPLE magazine? To put Frank Sinatra and then Carrey on consecutive covers at a time when India explodes its first nuclear bomb, Indonesia's ruler of 32 years steps down and the Department of Justice sues Microsoft is unconscionable. JEFF NIELSEN Corvallis...