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...What is the Lennon legacy? There is the astonishing body of music. The jaunty anthems he wrote in the early Beatle years (1962-1965) may have been teen love songs, but they displayed an exuberant joy that is surprisingly undiminished by the passage of time. Then, once Bob Dylan showed him that lyrics could be personal, Lennon tapped into his feelings and revealed a gift for sensitivity and self-awareness that completely belied his oft-proclaimed status as "just a rocker...
...most famous wonk to blow a sax was, of course, Bill Clinton, the main subject of Greil Marcus's new essay collection Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives. Marcus, a rock-n-roll critic best known for lively volumes on Elvis, Bob Dylan and the Sex Pistols, pinpoints Clinton's appearance on Arsenio Hall as the turnaround of his 1992 presidential bid. Considered a sure loser against Bush and Perot, Clinton swaggered on stage with his tenor saxophone, wailed a few bars of "Heartbreak Hotel" and instantly won enough support to capture...
Other speakers on the list of finalists included Bono, Bill Cosby, Bill Gates, Bill Murray, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Dan Rather, Dennis Miller, Hilary Clinton, J.K. Rowling, Jerry Seinfeld, John Leguizamo, Maya Angelou and Michael...
...More recently Hollywood has turned its attention to recovery because of the high-profile substance-battling of two of its own, Robert Downey Jr. and Melanie Griffith. For Bob (as his friends call him) and Melanie (who vacuumed topless in ?"Working Girl"), the world is one big meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. Here's Downey on the cover of ?Details discussing his hard road to recovery and sounding optimistic, several weeks prior to his arrest once again on drug-related charges on Nov. 25. Here's Griffith, detailing her recovery from "pain pills" in ?Melanie's Recovery Journal...
...Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's new book is titled...