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...save Planet Earth. From efforts to insert environmental themes into movies and TV to the formation of action groups by the rich and famous, the entertainment industry is mobilizing to help solve the environmental crisis. "We have all realized we're on the front lines," says British rock star Sting, who is campaigning worldwide to save the Brazilian rain forest. "We have access to information and can transmit it through the media...
That's treacherous turf, rocking and acting. From Elvis to Sting, one medium seems to undercut the other. But if they can be reconciled, then Roland Gift has the cool to bring it off. One wants to retain a little mystery as a . performer and steer clear of typecasting, especially along color lines. In fact, his father was black and his mother white, but further details of the family history are dear. The middle child in a family of five, Gift, 28, grew up in Hull, a small port city in the industrial north. "My father died when...
ELVIS COSTELLO: SPIKE (Warner Bros.). God's Comic, Stalin Malone, Miss Macbeth: even the titles sting. The songs are like an acid bath; no quarter given or expected...
ELVIS COSTELLO: SPIKE (Warner Bros.). God's Comic, Stalin Malone, Miss Macbeth: even the titles sting. The songs are like an acid bath; no quarter given or expected...
...first gray-brown stains appeared in the azure skies above Los Angeles before the outset of World War I. During World War II, the summer haze was beginning to sting the eyes and shroud the mountains that ring the city. By the mid-'50s, Los Angeles' smog, as the noxious vapor had been dubbed, was sufficiently thick and persistent to wilt crops, obstruct breathing and bring angry housewives into the streets waving placards and wearing gas masks. Oil companies were urged to cut sulfur emissions. Cars were required to use unleaded gas, and exhausts were fitted with catalytic converters...