Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might be poor," says Oprah Winfrey, "but we ain't sellin' our soul to the devil today." The cameras are rolling as Winfrey, a TV talk-show host who is said to earn more than $40 million a year, tackles her newest role, that of LaJoe Rivers, an impoverished mother of eight children struggling to survive in the Henry Horner Homes, a violent Chicago housing project. The movie, which will air on ABC in November, is the first serious film from Harpo, Winfrey's production company. It's based on the nonfiction best seller There Are No Children Here...
This matters, not just because a lot of money is at stake -- about $675 million in advertising revenue this year for a time period that once was a quiet backwater. The struggle is also for the soul of late-night TV, where America goes live and loose, where the rituals of daily life give way, on occasion, to the risky and serendipitous. Late night comes after the cheery sitcoms and earnest magazine shows have gone to bed. It is where Americans have the freedom to rabble-rouse, ruminate or maybe just relax -- their small- scale midnight rebellion...
...president of human resources came up and unlocked it for me," she recalls. "Then he gave me a box and stood there while I packed up my things. When he asked if there was anything else of mine that belonged to the company, I said, 'Yes, my heart and soul...
...Side 2, the man ponders continuity and eternity. As a husband, he sings All About Soul -- soul as primal music, as warm love, as a wisp of immortal spirit. As a father, he sings a lovely, McCartneyesque Lullabye that sounds like a dying man's goodbye. As an optimist, he prays that "we're on the verge of all things new" after Two Thousand Years. Both songs trust in children and art as the "vintage" of the next millennium...
...BOTTOM LINE: A politically oriented punk quartet proves once again that nobody can buy its musical soul...