Word: superstars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still believed in fighting fair and bloodless -- "I don't believe this kind of thing [the violent Western] is 'entertainment' no matter how you look at it" -- and he still sang the old country songs, releasing an album of old and new material in 1991 that featured country superstar Clint Black...
...level. Among other things, songs like her Poor Man's Blues ("Mister rich man, rich man, open up your heart and mind/ Give the poor man a chance, help stop these hard, hard times") represented pioneering social protests in black American popular music. Smith became the first black woman "superstar," traveling with her own tent show and attracting huge audiences...
Stauffer's absence would no doubt be a tremendous distraction at best, an enormous loss at worst. And early in the season, it appeared that Harvard would indeed have to weather the storm of a lackluster season while it waited for its superstar to return...
...Africa to Europe to show Parisians what that continent's culture was all about. So in 1978 he founded Africa Fete, a weeklong series of concerts in Paris that still draw tens of thousands of people each year. In 1993, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell (who helped bring reggae superstar Bob Marley to a global audience) licensed the name Africa Fete and started a similar show in America. He was forced to halt it, however, after three years of financial losses. This year Blackwell has brought it back with strong new sponsorship (including American Express and the Kennedy Center...
...operation (a botched one, leaving just an "angry inch" of scar tissue) so the two could marry and emigrate to America. Hedwig wound up in a trailer park in Kansas, where her G.I. abandoned her. Then she met Tommy Gnosis, a rock singer whom she helped turn into a superstar, but not before he had dumped her too. Now all that's left for Hedwig is to tell her life story in a confessional cabaret show, which has become off-Broadway's latest cult hit, Hedwig and the Angry Inch...