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DIED. CHARLES PIERCE, 72, flamboyant impersonator of Hollywood grandes dames; of cancer; in North Hollywood, Calif. Known for his campy--and catty--impressions of Bette Davis, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson and Mae West, Pierce played clubs throughout Europe and the U.S. for four decades...
...singer, Busch is a dynamite actress. To the task he brings a heroic vibrato and a trouper's frozen wide-screen smile. Imagine Tallulah Bankhead working the low notes and Shirley Temple the high ones on the Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, and you have an idea of the suave campery at which Busch excels...
...whenever I was onstage with ((Tallulah Bankhead)) and the moment approached when I was supposed to kiss her, I couldn't bear it. For some reason, she had a cool mouth and her tongue was especially cold ... I asked a stagehand to buy me a bottle of mouthwash, and after each time I had to kiss her I went offstage and took a swig...
...bands like the Buzzcocks, whom Slant 6 sound nothing like. Scrawl are the most obvious reference point--their early records were just as clear, economical, hummable and covertly sad as Soda Pop Rip, Off, though early Scrawl song were about half as fast. Other aural similarities are to Tallulah Gosh (the fast, sloppy, Oxford pop band that eventually became Heavenly) and to Boston's Salem 66, another riff-oriented all-female trio. Which raises the question of whether there's a separate tradition of all-female bands, stretching from the Raincoats on, whose sounds owe more to one another than...
...most talented and influential jazz musicians who ever blew a horn. As Louis Armstrong did for the trumpet, Bechet turned the soprano sax into a powerful solo voice. If Armstrong went on to achieve greater fame, Bechet had the more interesting life: affairs with Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith and Tallulah Bankhead; deportation from Britain; gunfights in Paris; and finally, ascension to the status of a national hero in France, where he died in 1959. Along the way, the hot-tempered Creole managed to record hundreds of tunes, including such classics as Summertime, Strange Fruit and Petite Fleur. These two digitally...