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They shouldn't--because they weren't anymore suckered this time than they have in the past. Chances are someone who's unknown to the public ghost-wrote that favorite tune just as surely as someone "ghost-sung" Milli Vanilli's entire album. What difference does it make? The music remains the same. Enjoy it--don't analyze...
Carlene Carter: I Fell in Love (Reprise). A world-beater album sung by a woman whose voice, with its leathery delicacy, can handle tunes of hard traveling and wrong-turn loving with equal finesse. If country music is still a man's game, Carter is effortlessly bending the rules...
Senior writer George J. Church's second greatest talent is penning musical parodies. Colleagues celebrating milestones in their lives are frequently blessed with a Church ditty, sung by the renowned librettist himself to one of a long list of pop tunes (e.g., I Left My Heart in San Francisco). His third greatest talent, say some, is his unique taste in clothes, which runs to purple ties and gold blazers. But the first thing we all know about George is that he is one of the most prolific and lucid writers ever to grace our pages...
...same Shinto ritual might have been helpful at the Kennedy Center in Washington, where tryouts began in August. At that point the show ran almost 3 1/2 hours. Its plot was virtually impenetrable, in part because 85% was sung rather than spoken, in part because in its conspiratorial milieu -- the warrior era of 17th century Japan -- good guys quite often turned into clandestine bad guys, or vice versa. Critics were harsh, but audiences were more forgiving. Thanks to word of mouth, the show averaged nearly $400,000 a week at the box office -- almost, but not quite, enough to cover...
...else, the creators recast the leading role, a marooned English seaman who must make a life in Japan. Clavell originally wanted a Briton and hired Peter Karrie. Mounting discontent with him led the creators to turn to Casnoff, 37, who had sung the role ably at an informal audition but at the time struck them as too young, little known and American. Casnoff took the job but wanted further changes: "I was kind of outspoken because they had so much work to do in so little time. They were between an opera and a book musical, neither fish nor fowl...