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Today mobsters need Hollywood more than Hollywood needs them. Like the western, the Mafia myth is outlasting its subject. TV's The Sopranos may indulge our power fantasies, but the series is really about the end of empire. (Boss Tony Soprano constantly escapes his woes by losing himself in Mob flicks like Public Enemy.) And the Sopranos' counterparts? They're counting down their twilight days, like the New Jersey DeCavalcantes, caught on tape debating the show's merits and looking for signs that its characters are based on them. "It's not me," one says pitiably. "I'm not even...
...retired when she married Charles Cavendish, an English lord. She can be heard, though, on the CD "A Portrait of Fred Astaire," an invaluable compilation of his recordings from 1926 to 1938. In these duets with Fred, from their hit shows, Adele has a tweety soprano with no special warmth or color; maybe, those who saw her on Broadway might have said, you had to be there. What's beguiling about these early sides is Fred's attempt to find a style. The voice never grew, but his knowledge of lyric reading eventually did. (A few of the songs also...
...Michael Chiklis, who in ABC's The Commish was a cop as plump and sweet as a powdered doughnut. For The Shield, he shaved his head, hit the gym and gave TV's performance of the year as a Mr. Dirty Cop with a Mr. Clean physique, a Tony Soprano with a badge, the stresses and contradictions of his life betrayed by his tensed jaw and cornered-animal eyes...
PLEADED GUILTY. ROBERT ILER, 17, who plays Tony Soprano's troublemaking son Anthony Jr., on HBO's The Sopranos; to petty larceny in the mugging, allegedly with three friends, of two 16-year-olds in Manhattan last July; in New York City. In a deal that nixed initial charges of second-degree robbery, a judge sentenced Iler to three years' probation...
...Winners MICHAEL JACKSON Pop king to codirect first film. The cast is not set and the script needs a rewrite, but he's already got a title: Dude, Where's My Nose? CHARLOTTE CHURCH Heavenly soprano wins Britain's Rear of the Year award. Parents everywhere dream, of course, of their daughter becoming Miss Ass ERIK LINDBERGH Flier replicates his grandpa's epic transatlantic flight. As a follow-up, he's planning to have his son kidnapped and then join the Nazi party Losers ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Singer booed for showing up late and lip-synching at a concert. For those...