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...there and I cried.” Colvin became a close friend to Lord as well as a mentor, particularly regarding “how to approach a song, how to deliver a performance.” Colvin’s example and the success of female singers Suzanne Vega and Tracy Chapman motivated Lord to intensify her own musical pursuits...
...jazz musician known as the Mayor of Greenwich Village during the folk revival of the '50s and '60s; of colon cancer; in New York City. A mentor to the young Bob Dylan, Van Ronk offered his apartment as a gathering place for musicians like Dylan, Tom Paxton and Suzanne Vega...
...histrionics, remains understated but direct: “Soap and water / Wash the year from my life / Straighten all that we trampled and tore / Heal the cut we call husband and wife.” The music is subtly complex, often with the folky underpinnings of an acoustic guitar. Vega and longtime bassist Mike Visceglia shift easily from the breezily defiant “(I’ll Never Be) Your Maggie May,” to the lithe, staccato “Solitaire.” Yet the punch is all in her lyrics, full of extended metaphors...
...into a surreal Willy Wonka-style world, Spy Kids ostensibly stars Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino as a pair of secret agents who decide to retire from the espionage game and settle into a quiet family life, but the real heroes are their plucky tykes, Carmen and Juni (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara), who are forced to save the day when mom and dad tumble into the clutches of evil. In one respect, Spy Kids shares a clear kinship to Rodriguez's previous films though its breezy, comic-book inventiveness-the playful "kids-save-parents" concept is every...
...needed relief (See Spot Run? God help us all). Rodriguez's screenplay may verge dangerously close to vapidity from time to time, but its honest-to-goodness heart cannot be denied. And there's a certain pleasure to be had in watching the film's duo of precocious youngsters-Vega comes with the kind of tough-cutie charms that suggest she could develop a real edge as an actress once she hits her teen years and Sabara, while playing his "sad hangdog" card a bit too much, carries a scrappy, underdog appeal. While it's unclear whether diehard Rodriguez fans...