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...film's success, in many airings since its January debut, has led Disney to retool it as a stage musical that will be licensed for local productions, beginning this fall. More important, the HSM mania may mark a torch-passing from one generation to the next. Puberty is suddenly geriatric; for marketers, tweens are the new teens. Entertainment entrepreneurs have realized the truth of a maxim as pertinent to education as to commerce: Get them while they're young, when they can be instilled with values, not simply reinforced with prejudices...
...fitting that Gossage carries the torch for spurned stars of yesteryear. He courted controversy throughout his 22 years in the big leagues, most famously as a New York Yankee. He once called Yankee owner George Steinbrenner "the fat man upstairs" and another time punched a teammate on the nose during a bathroom brawl. In 1986, after San Diego Padres owner Joan Kroc, the widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, banned beer in the clubhouse, Gossage famously remarked, "She is poisoning the world with her hamburgers, and we can't even get a lousy beer...
...shared songwriting credits. No track on “Fox Confessor” is more representative of Case’s solo aesthetic than the album’s penultimate song “At Last.” The title is an allusion to the Ella Fitzgerald torch song of the same name, but Case does not cover it so much as pay it homage. Her vocals channel Fitzgerald’s composed intensity, but her lyrics forsake the saccharine literalism of the original for Dylanesque poetic abstraction. She sings: “And if death should smell...
...authentically soulful as “Mine Again” and “Circles.” Unfortunately, a majority of the album’s tracks are irredeemably saccharine ballads. The worst offender in this respect is “Joy Ride,” an uninspired torch song in which Carey likens the pleasures of love to, surprise, a joy ride—not exactly the most potent of metaphors. Worse, Carey attempts to overshadow the track’s weak production with an excessively acrobatic vocal performance. At times it’s unclear whether she?...
...supporters were even credited with protecting Sunni mosques. For the more optimistic observers, those events seemed to confirm the notion that it is better to have al-Sadr inside the Iraqi political tent, trying to hold it up, than to leave him outside, threatening to put it to the torch. "This shows that Muqtada is a constructive force in politics," says Salah al-Obeidi, a senior al-Sadr aide. "This is the act of a responsible Iraqi leader...