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Whereas the boxed set offers more of Hendrix, Showtime's movie serves up less. It doesn't use any music that Hendrix wrote, leaving the filmmakers free of his family's creative control. Instead we hear Hendrix-sortasoundalikes playing his most famous covers, including a couple of Bob Dylan songs. But the problem with the movie isn't the fact that it's missing Hendrix's original songs; it's the fact that it's missing his original originality. Harris is on to something with his voodoo-chile spaciness, but the scriptwriters give him little...
Hendrix's popularity has never really waned (earlier this year, a rock museum inspired by him, the Experience Music Project, opened in Seattle), but the coming weeks will see a notable surge. In 1995, after a legal battle, the Hendrix family regained control over the bulk of his music and has been systematically releasing archival material. Hendrix-catalog manager John McDermott says there are some 1,500 tapes--almost all as yet unheard by the public--left in the vaults. On Sept. 12, Experience Hendrix/MCA will release The Jimi Hendrix Experience, a four-CD boxed set featuring 56 previously unreleased...
Your story noted that one woman broke off a 10-year relationship because the guy wouldn't propose marriage to her. Well, now that women have more control over their lives than ever before, why don't they start proposing to us men? One doesn't have to be male to ask for dates or marriage; one just has to be able to take no for an answer. COLLINS CRAPO Idaho Falls...
...approach them. Bill wanted to call it Living with Dying. Judith, knowing from surveys that audiences shy away from words like death and dying, pushed for something hopeful. On Our Own Terms, her choice, deliberately plays to the boomer conviction, she says, that "we can change things; we can control things." Bill thought the wording was wrong precisely because of that. "It feeds their egoism, their sense that they can control things," he said, "and they...
...Russia's objections to unilateral U.S. action but then criticizes the administration for pursuing consensus-building with Moscow and others. Those contradictions, combined with breathless, vituperative language, obscure valid points, like the administration's studious disregard for Russian atrocities in Chechnya and its failure to achieve any new arms control agreements with the Russians over eight years...