Word: singer
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...this a Jewish-style version of John Updike's best-selling Couples? An X-rated take on Isaac Bashevis Singer, who long ago quietly introduced readers to the subject of senior-citizen sex? Or is Roth's 21st book a strategically scandalous novel by a first-rate writer in a second-rate literary culture who needs another commercial success like Portnoy's Complaint to justify his advances? The issue is certainly complicated, but the fact remains that Roth has changed publishers as often as Dave Winfield has switched teams--and for the same reasons. Management gets tired of paying...
...traveled to Israel's remote Negev desert last week to search for his former nanny; he believes she is living among the Black Hebrews, a splinter Jewish sect whose adherents (above, with Wonder) claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. By week's end, however, the singer still hadn't found his long-lost care giver. But the trip wasn't a total loss: Wonder performed concerts in Jerusalem and Ramat Gan and said he was thrilled at "seeing the Holy Land in spirit...
...finally cornered his very own entertainment conglomerate, but who knew that MCA conqueror EDGAR BRONFMAN JR. was also cornering the market on torch songs? Next month three ballads co-written by the rookie media mogul appear on Intimacy, a new album by Bruce Roberts (the very same singer who made his living back in the 1970s as the musical voice of Danny Partridge on The Partridge Family TV show). And there's more: this coming February, Bronfman-penned lyrics to a song called To Love You More will turn up on pop-schmaltz goddess Celine Dion's new disc...
...singer, Busch is a dynamite actress. To the task he brings a heroic vibrato and a trouper's frozen wide-screen smile. Imagine Tallulah Bankhead working the low notes and Shirley Temple the high ones on the Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, and you have an idea of the suave campery at which Busch excels...
POSTHUMOUSLY INDUCTED. PAUL ROBESON, football player, actor and singer; into the College Football Hall of Fame; in South Bend, Indiana. Robeson, an All-American at Rutgers in 1917 and 1918, was for decades falsely accused of being a communist because of his liberal views and efforts to win equal rights for blacks. He died...