Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the highly successful romantic comedy The Wedding Singer, it appeared that Adam Sandler had reached a new level of maturity and subtlety. Appearances are often deceptive, and if you've seen Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and the recurring "S.N.L." skit "Canteen Boy," then you can piece together Sandler's stupid, bayou-bred mama's boy, Bobby Bouchet. Bouchet, after learning how to channel his aggression into solid hits, goes from being the village idiot/waterboy to being a tackle that makes William "The Refrigerator" Perry look like the Maytag repair man. The plot is weak, but Sandler's hilarious physical...
...Sudanese family to Jerusalem in Einat Kapach's Jephtach's Daughter. The highlight of the screenings, however, was Ido, an award-winning documentary directed by Gilaad Goldschmidt, which combined similar themes of youthful rebellion and family relationship with a more contemporary edge. Ido's title character is the singer of a rock band in Israel who undergoes a religious conversion which motivates him to orthodoxy, marriage and abandonment of the band, much to the bewilderment of his "secular" parents and friends...
Zzzzzzzarrrrrrrzzzzzzarrrrr! The soul-rock singer Seal is mixing himself a weird-looking drink. It's a pale-green health-food shake that's not entirely dissimilar in color and consistency to what one imagines might be found growing on the side of a transatlantic ocean liner. ZZZZZarrrrr! The sound of the electric blender mixing this concoction fills Seal's roomy Manhattan hotel suite, making conversation impossible. He adds a few vitamins to the sludge. ZZZZZZZarrrrr! Finally, the shake is done. It has the quality of primordial ooze; you half expect creatures part fish, part mammal to crawl...
...year-old singer is a man of mysteries, both tiny and large. He goes by Seal professionally, but his real name is Sealhenry Olumide Samuel. In person he is tall, sleekly muscular and imposingly handsome, with a clean-shaven head and sloped, piercing eyes; his cheeks, however, are rough and pocked, the result of a long-ago lupus episode (something else he prefers not to discuss). Nor is he always comfortable talking about his parents. (His mother was Nigerian and his father Brazilian; both are dead.) Seal was born in London and grew up poor...
...guest stars makes the proceedings feel a bit bloated. Here's sweet balladeer Celine Dion and nail-spitting rapper Foxy Brown. There's Jay-Z, Nas and Noriega. Even Puff Daddy drops in to co-produce a tune. What, O.J. was busy? Why does Kelly, a blue-chip producer-singer-songwriter, need to call in the cavalry? Because R. is less an album than a collection of gussied-up singles, like a meal made only of desserts. There are half a dozen songs that show what Kelly can do, but by the time you finish disc...