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...Aimee Mann, "Bachelor No. 2, or the Last Remains of the Dodo" Gorgeous hooks and bittersweet attitude to spare. Nothing involving the marriage of melody and lyrics (the basis for songs, last I checked) beat "Red Vines" in these ears this year. Throw in the Oscar nomination for "Magnolia" (inexplicably defeated by the odious Phil Collins entry), a tour with hubby Michael Penn and a worthwhile best-of collection including highlights from her 'Til Tues-days, and it was a banner year for the prickly princess...
...occasional anger, the history of America's finest, proudest indigenous music. Its 75 interviews, 2,400 still photographs, more than 2,000 film excerpts and over 500 pieces of supernal music are spread across 10 episodes, which will take up a good deal of the primest time PBS can spare from Jan. 8, when the first segment will air, to the last day of the month, when the final chapter, an accounting of the music's past quarter-century, a hopeful peek into the future and a fond envoi, will close everything out in fine style. The mighty history Burns...
...newspaper comic strip. At mid-century the comics were dominated by action and adventure, vaudeville and melodrama, slapstick and gags. Schulz dared to use his own quirks - a lifelong sense of alienation, insecurity and inferiority - to draw the real feelings of his life and time. He brought a spare pen line, Jack Benny timing and a subtle sense of humor to taboo themes such as faith, intolerance, depression, loneliness, cruelty and despair. His characters were contemplative. They spoke with simplicity and force. They made smart observations about literature, art, classical music, theology, medicine, psychiatry, sports...
Usually that something is doing the laundry. Whenever Jonda goes down to her basement to wash clothes, she sees, tucked under the stairs, an old tandem stroller. Her father crafted it from spare parts, painted it white and wrapped rubber around its wooden wheels. Jonda won't get rid of the stroller, even though it provokes sorrow and anger toward the sister who walked out on her family. What Jonda doesn't know--and might never know...
When John Searles was 18, he worked in a factory in Connecticut. Every day at lunchtime he would drive home and cry. "It was my worst nightmare come true," he says. His parents, a truck driver and a housewife with little money to spare, had refused to send him to college, and set him up with this job instead. "They weren't trying to be mean," says Searles. "College wasn't part of their world...