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Blending Southern rock and soulful blues, this absorbing debut album by South Carolina quartet Hootie & the Blowfish has become an unexpected commercial smash, selling more than a million copies. It features the catchy, sing-along number "Hold My Hand," which has landed in Billboard's Top 10. "Hootie's music may be deeply personal, but it's not wimpy," says TIME pop music critic Christopher John Farley. "The band's sound is big and guitar stuffed, and lead singer Darius Rucker's voice is always bluesy and confident...
DIED. GEORGE ABBOTT, 107, playwright, director, producer; in Miami Beach, Florida. Abbott was easily Broadway's longest-running hit-from a $45-a-week turn as a soused college student in 1913's The Misleading Lady to the rethinking of his 1955 box-office smash Damn Yankees for its current revival. In between were well over 100 productions in which George Abbott was named somewhere in the program, including a succession of bona fide classics: Where's Charley?, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pal Joey. All of them were marked...
...says video games are dead? Not this digital gorilla, fetched from the old arcade game and redrawn in eye-popping 3-D by the same Silicon Graphics computers that brought the dinosaurs to life in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park. Donkey Kong Country has been Nintendo's smash hit of this Christmas season. In fact, the game in its first week of release in November brought in more money (nearly $35 million) than the Disney studio's box-office gorilla The Santa Clause...
...until she was 40 did Lucille Ball become Lucy Ricardo. She was elevated from the ranks of the Ann Millers of the world forever, however, once I Love Lucy premiered in 1951. The show, created by Ball and her husband, bandleader Desi Arnaz, was an instant smash...
...findings - based on face-to-face interviews with a random sample of nearly 3,500 Americans, ages 18 to 59, selected using techniques honed through decades of political and consumer polling (see box) - will smash a lot of myths. "Whether the numbers are reassuring or alarming depends on where you sit," warns Edward Laumann, the University of Chicago sociologist who led the research team. While the scientists found that the spirit of the sexual revolution is alive and well in some quarters - they found that about 17% of American men and 3% of women have had sex with at least...