Word: vocals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robert De Niro plays Walt Koontz, an almost parodistically macho security guard, who is felled by a stroke as he tries to prevent a robbery in his New York City apartment building. As part of his therapy he requires singing lessons to help him remobilize his frozen vocal cords. Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman), his transvestite neighbor, is recruited to tutor him, while we settle down to await their inevitable bonding...
...compilation of traditional and somewhat cheesy Yuletide tunes such as "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" as well as a revamped version of "Hands" (from the 1998's Spirit album) and her latest single, "Face of Love," which showcases Jewel's awesome vocal range. Joy shows more sides of Jewel's talent, as she experiments with opera and choral styles in her rendition of "Gloria." The adaptation of guitar to fit the organ's instrumentation provides an updated feel to this variation of Bach's B-minor Mass. The crux of this album is "Gospel...
...pervasive sense of confusion and a profound lack of connection between the audience and much of the action on stage. The palpable anticipation of what is arguably this season's major theatrical event was met with, and disappointed by, the repeated failure of the principals' body microphones, confounding the vocal efforts of the cast, and troubling the audience's ability to immerse in the musical...
...were born knowing what to do on each song and his guitar skills match it perfectly: in "Chinese Cabdriver," a sexy guitar intro winds itself around you before Bennett begins to lazily croon, "Hey, Mr. Cabdriver/Say, where the hell are you takin' me?" Meanwhile, Warren performs some amazing vocal acrobatics--her wonderfully mature voice can be anything from thick and milky sweet in "Babylon" to loose and bluesy in "Goodbye Song," and her smoldering, darkly seductive "I Know What Boys Like" ensures us that, yes, Warren probably does know what boys like. Together, Bennett and Warren create a stellar first...
...back. "Sexx Laws" and its driving horns might come straight from the James Brown songbook; other tunes could back up gangsta rap (though it's unlikely Method Man would tolerate this couplet, from "Hollywood Freaks": "We drop lobotomy beats/Evaporated meats"). The fantastically mellow "Debra" even features an impassioned falsetto vocal delivered to the world's most sensuous J.C. Penney clerk. "I wanna get with you," Beck says. "And your sister. I think her name's Debra...