Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beating moral lessons into thick skulls. And in a limited genre one can easily lose track of who is playing what role, and why. Here is Streep as the troubled survivor of a traumatic World War II episode. Sophie's Choice? No, Plenty. Lange stars as a trailblazing country singer of the '60s who has a truculent husband and a few brushes with disaster. A remake of Loretta Lynn and Coal Miner's Daughter? No, this is Patsy Cline and Sweet Dreams. Spacek plays a Southern working-class mother fighting high-level corruption. Wait a minute: that's Norma...
...physical presence is nothing if not revolutionary. Which is exactly what Producer Irwin Winkler was looking for when he cast Eurythmics Lead Singer Annie Lennox, 30, in the role of Miss Liberty in Revolution, an epic film about the American War of Independence, due out in December. "We thought she had the right kind of look for the period," says Winkler of the Scottish rocker. "We thought her voice would ring out in the crowd. It cuts through everything." In the film's opening scene, Lennox incites a mob to take a ship for the American cause from its owner...
...Zappa announced that "the complete list of P.M.R.C. demands reads like an instruction manual for some sinister kind of toilet-training program to housebreak all composers and performers." Nebraska Democrat J. James Exon suggested ominously that "unless the music industry cleans up its act, there might well be legislation." Singer Dee Snider showed up in tight jeans and a cut-off T shirt and fought past his nervousness to tell everyone that the band's song Under the Blade, allegedly a glorification of S-M, was in fact about fear of surgery. "The only sado-masochism present," he insisted...
...Being a successful singer is like being a guru,' he said. 'Everyone wants to talk to you, be near you, love...
...case Pete's sentiments and strangely convoluted prose forays don't convince people that he knows a lot about Life's Important Questions, Townshend peppers his stories with a bibliography of the Very Impressive Writers he knows about. He refers to Proust and Joyce. He lists Conrad, Burgess, Bashevis Singer and Balzac as writers he's keen on, as well as P.G. Wodehouse and H.E. Bates: "I read fairly heavy stuff. To mention all the authors might make me sound pretentious...