Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Will the real Michael Jackson please stand up or, in this case, sit down? The reclusive singer was at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London last week to witness the debut of his life-size look-alike. The wax Jackson, for which the singer posed last November, has an electric bulb twinkling in its right eye, the jeweled glove on the outstretched right hand is studded with tiny strobes, and the silver waistcoat also lights up. After a close inspection, the sleek and shiny original pronounced his nondancing double to be "excellent, really good." Then Jackson went outside...
...sedan, orchestrated by Iacocca, typified the wonderful wantonness. In 1966 he sailed dozens of Lincoln-Mercury dealers to the Virgin Islands, where after a meal on a beach at sunset, an amphibious landing craft thrashed ashore. Out onto the sand popped a brand-new white Cougar driven by Singer Vic Damone, who proceeded to croon...
Most impressive is Carreras, a stylish singer whose suave voice is often heard to better advantage on recordings than in large opera houses. Suppressing his Hispanic accent gamely, if intermittently, to play the American Tony, Carreras lovingly spins out his phrases, making an impassioned romantic aria out of Maria and lending Puccinian fervor to the love duet One Hand, One Heart. Te Kanawa's pure, gleaming voice and British inflection seem a bit too uptown for a Puerto Rican girl from New York City's tough West Side, but she floats a golden high pianissimo at the end of Tonight...
...adventure series, set in postapocalypse Australia, Turner, 46, plays Aunty Entity, the hardhearted ruler of a barbaric outpost known as Bartertown. No, love's got nothing to do with it; instead of falling for Swoon Symbol Mel Gibson, 29, Aunty becomes Mad Max's archenemy. Says the leggy singer: "I used to think I'd like to do Cleopatra, but now I really want to play tough women." Good grief, does this mean escalating beyond flinty Aunty in her chain-mail dress...
Choosing a star to play the late C. and W. Singer Patsy Cline proved a simple gambit: you take the girl out of Country, and you will get a lot of country out of the girl. Jessica Lange, 35, also got something out of Sweet Dreams, due at theaters in the fall. After a series of roles in which "a lot was internalized," Lange enjoyed playing someone whose "personality was so external that she held nothing in." To look as well as emote the part, Lange tucked her blond locks under a series of brunet wigs, and Cline's mother...