Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Jagged Edge avoids most of the blatancy of the more mundane, graphic thrillers, it still seems an unlikely vehicle for both Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close. These are actors we tend to identify with soul-searching, sensitive movies--movies that demand some amount of psychological development from their characters. Jagged Edge is somewhat overly plotted, too crowded with testimony and surprise twists in the story to allow for the characters themselves to go through much personal transformation...
Aretha Franklin, once the world's greatest living soul singer, has sold out. The erstwhile Queen of Soul, who had a string of big singles in the 1960s--"Spanish Harlem," "Respect," "Think," "House That Jack Built"--has returned to the music scene with a giant media splash. You know: the kind that goes "Pop, $$$$, thud...
...shares a few stripes with Tina Turner--both apparently are tough-minded, independent women who have taken their knocks. But musically they are miles apart. Where Franklin cruises the gospel-inflected domain of church R&B, Turner remains raunch'n roll's preeminent gasp-and-grinder. One sells her soul, the other...
...been exhausted. Still, the self-examinations can be potent: the spiteful teenager closes the first act with a blazing speech about how she would like to emulate the indifference to pain of her "hero," G. Gordon Liddy, but she cannot deny the agony of thrusting her hand, or her soul, into a flame...
EXPECTING. Olivia Newton-John, 37, candy-voiced Australian singer (Let's Get Physical, Soul Kiss) and actress (Grease, Two of a Kind), and her husband Actor Matt Lattanzi, 26; their first child; in February...