Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around with other women, and makes his wife do ninety-percent of the work on their farm. At the film's halfway point, Celie is still cleaning vividly-hued ketchup and mustard stains while the tyrant goes off to try to rekindle an old romance with a famous blues singer...
...contains "Cruel Circus," the second dumbest pro-vegetarian song even on wax--the first is "Meat is Murder" by the Smiths. That song like most is a reflection of the colourfield's attitude problem, a problem easily fixed by introducing Hall to Husker Du's lead guitarist and singer Bob Mould on one of Mould's bad nights. That would be a lesson in commitment...
What a Life! is the second album from the Australian band Divinyls. Their music is claimed to form a synthesis of punk and pop. Singer Christina Amphlett manages to prove marginally successful in this endeavor, though the sound is generally much closer to pop than to punk...
...sultry voice and jazzy arrangements have led some to compare her with vocalists of a bygone era, but Sade, 26, cites instead such contemporary influences as Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson and Joni Mitchell. Whatever her sources, the Nigerian-born, English-bred singer has cut a unique groove for herself. Sade (pronounced Shar-day) saw her 1984 debut album, Diamond Life, go platinum while her second, Promise, is shooting up the charts, and her current eight-city U.S. tour is sold out. She has also been named one of the world's ten most elegant women by Elle magazine. Pretty good...
...blessing. For every scene of raw artistry--as when young Celie's brutal husband "Mr." tears her away from her beloved sister Nettie--there are three others that seem photographed by Rainbow Brite for Hovel Beautiful. The book's famous lesbian encounter between Celie and the charismatic blues singer Shug is played as if it were a sweet game a mother would teach her adoring child. Male violence is less sexual than paternal. Passion is wanting throughout, and a radiance that emanates from something other than a klieg light. It's all very pretty, but it's cinematography, not cinema...