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...When I was in Jordan as part of a human rights delegation, I was talking to the foreign minister," said Yarrow. "It was a passionate time and so I said to him, ~'Excuse me, I'd like to do something different, I'd like to sing a song...
WHRB: You are able to sing the lyrics to every song by Love Battery. If you're a rising star, you know the words to the lyrics of every ballad by the Hard Ons, as well...
...exhibition dazzles with impressive works by Rubens' colleagues and students, among them Anthony Van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Jan Brueghel, David Teniers, and Frans Snyders. Not to be missed is Jacob Jordaens's amusing genre scene of a corpulent "Married With Children" type family entitled As the Old Ones Sing, So the Young Ones Pipe (1640-45). Also impressive are Van Dyck's stately, sweeping Portrait of the Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, and the massive, sixteen-foot Boar Hunt by Frans Snyders...
...England's Glyndebourne Festival, reassembling most of his Glyndebourne cast of black American singers. He vividly evokes the opera's Catfish Row in swirling crowd scenes intercut with sharply detailed close-ups, in smokily languorous tableaus that erupt into brutal fights and sensual embraces. Instead of letting the performers sing, however, he has them lip-synch to a sound track of their own cast recording, issued by EMI Classics with Simon Rattle + conducting the London Philharmonic. It's a vibrant recording in its own right, but the miming shows -- and jars with the quasi-naturalistic style of Nunn's staging...
...compromised, Disneyized, classified, Jurassified. "I don't get out much anymore," she demurely declares, adding that mostly she sits "in my star trailer watching CNN. I know what everyone in Bosnia is wearing." She frets that she has Oldtimer's disease, or at least Part-timer's ("Did I sing the ballad yet? Was it wonderful?"). She also purports to worry about sullying her "newfound stature." When her backup trio, "the politically correct Harlettes," starts a striptease in the home of the world-famed Christmas show, Bette goes frantic: "Girls, this is Radio City! They have a manger backstage...