Word: singer
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...Adriana Caselotti never forgot that she was Snow White. As the ethereal voice behind Walt Disney's 1934 cartoon embodiment of wide-eyed virtue, Caselotti placed a wishing well in her front yard and a recording of "I'm Wishing" on her telephone answering machine. The 80-year-old singer, who died at home Sunday after a battle with cancer, "was just that wonderful, cheery, little lady," said Roy Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney. Caselotti possessed a similar innocence about the outside world when she was picked at the age of 17 to bring Snow White to life...
...shorter, cheaper, spread over three days, with eight tents on the Mall instead of 65. Gone is Barbra Streisand, who decided to attend a movie awards ceremony instead. At the "vital center" of this Inaugural are such artists as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and country music singer Trisha Yearwood. Cymbals and symbols have been muted: there will be no walk across the Memorial Bridge arm in arm with hundreds of schoolchildren while bells ring from coast to coast. This time the Clintons rejected a suggestion that five-year-olds build a Tinker Toy bridge to the 21st...
That remains to be seen. One good sign is that despite his windy speech at the annual Macworld Expo in San Francisco--which featured four movie stars, three CEOs, rock singer Peter Gabriel and former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali--most software developers came away optimistic. The big question now is whether Apple's hitherto loyal consumers will keep the faith...
...attitude work wonders. "Elton is more than a pal for me: he's my brother by choice," coos Versace, for whose runway shows John often writes songs. "I love his voice, music and talent." Having put him through three fittings, in Paris, London and Milan, Versace gave the flamboyant singer the dresses when the shoot was over. (What else was he going to do with them?) Says Versace: "I'm sure he's going to surprise me by wearing one of them next time we meet...
Mixing rap and folk, however, seemed doable, even natural. After all, Beck's family was artistically eclectic: his father was a bluegrass musician; his mother, who raised him in Los Angeles, played the occasional gig as a singer; and his maternal grandfather, Al Hansen, was a pioneering multimedia artist and colleague of Andy Warhol's. As a teenager, Beck traveled to New York City and got caught up in the music scene; later he hooked up with hip-hop producer Karl Stephenson and cut Loser. The song became an unexpected hit, he was signed by Geffen records...