Word: singer
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...Lost Kingdom, the story of a prince who leaves his father's castle and lives as a peasant, will give readers heartache or heartburn, depending on how they feel about Bolton, particularly since Kingdom's long-tressed hero bears an uncanny physical resemblance to his creator. The singer wrote the story early one morning, inspired by spending a few nights in a British castle. Unlike Bolton, Travolta is no novice, having already penned articles for Esquire and Rolling Stone. His book, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, which he calls "fifty-fifty autobiographical," was written in 1992 for his son Jett...
...report that it does. "The impulse to sing raunchy, corny, beautiful songs trapped Elvis," he writes. Still, before the decline, we had in a young Elvis "a terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song?s mood, to Bing Crosby than to any singer of the past 30 years. In that trap, as this set proves, he found triumph." CINEMA: "After 40 years," writes Corliss, "Jean-Luc Godard can still astonish and amuse in the cinematic shorthand he virtually created. Now two of his films, both about moviemaking, are on view...
...sensitive-guy rocker. Sure, Cobain, Shakur and Smalls were sensitive in their own way--Shakur even recorded a tribute to his mom--but their vulnerability was often drowned in guitar feedback or thumping beats. Many of today's top male performers, like neo-soul crooner Maxwell, Christian-pop singer Bob Carlisle, soft-focus R.-and-B. singer Babyface and PG-13 rated rapper-actor Will Smith, go further; the aggression, the sharp edges, the dangerous sexuality are all gone, leaving almost pure...
...reigning prince of sensitive-guy pop may be Jakob Dylan, lead singer for the folk-rock band the Wallflowers. The band's latest CD, Bringing Down the Horse, has sold 3 million copies and is still going strong. The album is actually a weary affair, but it has taken radio by storm with its Top 40 guitar hooks and introspective lyrics, and with Dylan's shadowy, intimate vocals. Does Dylan consider himself sensitive? "I think people like myself feel the same thing everyone else feels," he says. "But sometimes [people] focus on one aspect of their feelings, like anger...
...could she have known who played Dynasty's Alexis Carrington Colby? Or had time to care? Till she was 14, Jewel Kilcher grew up in an unelectrified log cabin on an 800-acre homestead near Homer, Alaska. Her father Atz Kilcher was a folk singer, the son of a Swiss immigrant to Alaska who helped write the state charter (Grandpa Kilcher still tools around occasionally in his horse and buggy in Homer, scaring the residents). Her mother Nedra Carroll also sang and dabbled in other crafts. When Jewel was eight, her parents divorced, and her mother left for Anchorage. Jewel...