Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Purple Rain were the "classic love story between a struggling musician and a beautiful singer dancer" its publicity insists on, it might as well join this year's slush pile of sensitive adolescent nonentities in leg-warmers and dance shoes. But if you accept it as a celebration of pure sleaze music, transcendent narcissism, and of course Prince. Purple Rain reveals consummate nerve and an unnerving energy level. Though laden with a number of obvious flaws, Purple Rain somehow rises above all that murk--that kid from Minnesota just may be on the way to doing for leather, sweat...
HOSPITALIZED. Liza Minnelli, 38, effervescent singer-actress; for treatment of alcohol and Valium problems; at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Minnelli's newly acknowledged difficulties evoke rueful comparisons with her mother, Judy Garland, who suffered from drug and alcohol addiction for much of her life...
...celebrate the individual, but to confirm the complementary social and personal alienation. Such pessimism is a natural reaction to a pretty gloomy future says Travers, pointing to the economic situation and nuclear arms race. Although no panacea exists, there are small changes to be won. For this folk singer, such a victory could be won in November with Reagan's defeat. No, she says everything will not change. And, no, Mondale does not have all the answers. There is, however, a choice here...
Like America itself, in other words, but more urban, more hopped up, less buttoned down. San Francisco's mild but flighty climate must nurture eccentrics. In 1849, the city's commissioner of deeds resigned to become a singer-songwriter. Some years later, a circus geek called Oofty Goofty became a sidewalk S-M entrepreneur: he let passers-by cane him for a quarter or hit him with a baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people...
...married, they did not want to shuck all tradition, and gathered grandparents for a christening two weeks ago in London. "I'm loving every minute of being Dad again," says Jagger, 40, who has two other daughters: Jade, 13 (by ex-wife Bianca), and Karis, 13 (by American Singer Marsha Hunt). The baby, he adds, has "Jerry's sweet disposition and my extravagant good looks...