Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rebuild L.A. Gear's momentum, chairman Robert Greenberg signed singer Paula Abdul to endorse her own line. The company also hopes youngsters will go for Sun Blossoms tennis shoes, which sport white vinyl flowers that change color in sunlight. To top it off, the company will launch Catapult, a $100 shoe designed to compete with Nike's Air Jordan and Reebok's the Pump...
...HORN: YOU WON'T FORGET ME (Verve). Her voice is sultry, voluptuous, plaintive; her piano work both driving and delicate. Combine them with brilliant backing by the likes of Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis (separate tracks, please), and you get one of the most exciting performances by a jazz singer since the heyday of the late Sarah Vaughan...
...remarkable as the first (and perhaps last?) post-glasnost film from the Soviet Union. Lounguine proudly airs Russia's dirty laundry: the pervasive alcoholism, the anti-Semitism, the suspicion and self-destruction. Rock star Piotr Mamonov has a snaky charisma as the musician, and American tenor-sax legend Hal Singer blesses the project with his presence. At last May's Cannes Film Festival, Taxi Blues won the best-director prize. Today it has both news and nostalgic value. We can hear it wail, in a minor key, from the sweet and recent past: the early days of Soviet freedom, which...
...tone of these scenes is windily self-important, the intellectual content embarrassingly slight. Even worse is the inherent contradiction between deploring the folk mythification of assassins and sustaining that very process by having a singer-narrator twang knowing ditties about the killers...
...Pacino), the sleek, ruthless don, has become a legitimate billionaire. His sister Connie (Talia Shire) has dredged herself out of a sullen stupor to become his feisty adviser. His ex-wife Kay (Diane Keaton) has remarried. His son Anthony (Franc D'Ambrosio) has eyes to become an opera singer. His daughter Mary (Sofia Coppola) is itching to grow up and fall in love...