Word: songstress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film loses itself in so many internal contradictions one is tempted to call it Screwloose. The minister forbids his daughter to listen to rock, but he permits her to wear the clothes of a big-city hooker, a hairdo befitting a glitzy country songstress, 6 lbs. of Maybelline and no bra. The kids in Beaumont have been denied dancing for five years, yet they are as slick as the regulars on Soul Train. Gaffes like these were of little moment in Flashdance; its preposterous story was soft-focused into a modern fable. It matters here, where the young...
Lapotaire renders Piaf, the diminutive poet-songstress of the pre-dawn city blues, with matchless psychological fidelity. She gives us Piaf, whom the French called the Sparrow, as an eagle in courage. She makes us know Piaf soul-seared, the Paris gutter urchin, the cagey whore whom the world came to hold in the embrace of fame but who could not keep her own life from seeping through her splayed fingers, at 47 in 1963 spent by alcohol, morphine, sex and cancer...
Waits' pursuit of a happy homelife and a woman he can call wife squelches a year of talk about his much-publicized relationship with Rickie Lee Jones. Publications from People to Rolling Stone touted Waits and songstress Jones as an "item," with the British rock mag Melody Maker going so far as to call their marriage "imminent." Though Waits and Jones are undeniably close and inhabit a collective world of old cars, stale bars and life's generally seamy underside, sharing a coterie of self-styled low-lifers, whatever romantic interlude the two enjoyed seems to have waned. Rickie...