Word: singer
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GLUM AND GLUMMER MOVIES Critics often groan about mindlessly optimistic tripe from Hollywood. But in 1995 many of them found moral instruction, even art, in mindlessly pessimistic tripe--grotty little films about how rotten life is. If it wasn't the self-destructive singer in Georgia, it was a moony, whiny Priest or some horny, joyless Kids. Cheer up, folks; life ain't that bad. Only movies...
...HARVEY To Bring You My Love (Island). This utterly graceless singer is a favorite of the rock press. But her hopelessly mannered CD--with its distorted vocals and theatrical emotionality--is for musical masochists only. In the world of experimental pop, Bjork's whimsically wonderful Post and The Rebirth of Cool: Vol. 3, featuring Portishead and Tricky, are more daring and eclectic...
...SEVEN GUITARS August Wilson sets his latest play in the backyard of a ramshackle tenement in 1948 Pittsburgh, where a gifted young blues singer schemes and dreams through his last desperate days. The Pulitzer prizewinner's new work, which has played in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco, is a rich ragout of melodrama and mysticism that should be cooking by the time it reaches Broadway this spring...
...days before a highly publicized concert that despite featuring mimes was supposed to give a much needed shot in the arm to his career, it was MICHAEL JACKSON himself who was getting medical help. The singer collapsed while rehearsing and was rushed to the hospital, where his doctors diagnosed a viral infection; diarrhea had led to severe dehydration, which in turn caused an irregular heartbeat and dangerously low blood pressure. Wife Lisa Marie, sister Janet and mother Katherine rushed to the star's bedside, but it wouldn't be the Jackson family without sniping from LaToya, who first intimated that...
...Dyson argues that those who (rightly) lionize Malcolm should re-examine the radical final stage of King's life, in which he sought to unify "poor blacks, whites, Latinos and native Americans in a multiracial coalition ... to challenge the unfair distribution of wealth." Dyson also offers a defense of singer Mariah Carey against critics who say her music is not "authentically" black. He writes: "What Carey's career may teach us is that paranoia about purity is the real enemy of black cultural expression, which at its best is characterized by the amalgamation of radically different elements." Dyson's worthy...