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Past Massey lecturers have included, Richard Rorty, Toni Morrison, Gore Vidal, and Alfred Kazin...
...know this middle-aged jazz saxophonist who swears that Toni Braxton’s 1996 hit, “Un-Break My Heart,” is the most musically fascinating pop song of the twentieth century. I guess he must be right, because hella people have been revisiting that song’s tormented legacy this year! First, Eurotrash man-band Il Divo translates it into Italian, and now, Missy Elliott’s in a really messed-up version of that song’s video...
It’s there that the music gets all Aphex Twin on us, while Missy throws in a titillating rap about how her homeboy was sexually inadequate (even pre-mortem) that makes Toni look like Celine Dion. Oh, wait, Toni Braxton actually is kind of like the Celine Dion of R&B. Wait, didn’t Celine Dion also have a video about her boyfriend dying in a car accident? For that matter, has anyone ever seen them in the same room together...
...hates, and escaping the duplicitous world of sports betting. Since I am a sports fan, the many, many scenes of high-stakes college football in this movie should have enthralled me. Since I am a lover of drama, the convoluted love triangle between Walter’s wife, Toni (Rene Russo), Brandon, and Walter should have kept me on the edge of my seat or at least, interested. And yet, more often than not, I found myself checking my watch. The weird sexual subplot between youthful Brandon Lane and middle-aged Toni Abraham is unbelievable and kind of grotesque...
...TONI MORRISON, 74 Having won the Pulitzer and the Nobel, she continues to write novels as well as teach at Princeton...