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Unfortunately, all these shrewd insights were muffled in the American debut performance by the acoustic shortcomings of the opera house at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Long sections of dialogue were indecipherable even to those seated far forward. Worse, the production -- which will tour to Washington, St. Paul, Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles this summer -- is encumbered by a generally second-rate supporting cast. Part of the problem may be in attracting top-quality actors to so long a tour, for the standard is well below what is customary on the National's stages in London...
...months Cyrus, 30, has rocketed from nowhere (or the nearest thing: Flatwoods, Ky.) to No. 1 on the pop charts. Is this Elvis? Bruce? Actually, neither. Aside from Achy Breaky, Cyrus has only one memorable song -- the sour-grapes rouser Could've Been Me -- on his Some Gave All debut album. And even now he could use a charisma injection. But, hell, let Billy Ray enjoy his nine-days'-wonder status. It's nine days more than most people...
...Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat," wrote Robert Frost. Tracy Marrow's poetry takes a switchblade and deftly slices life's jugular. Since his 1987 debut album, Rhyme Pays, Marrow -- who goes by his high school nickname of Ice-T -- has set off critics who accuse him of glorifying crime, homophobia, sexism and violence. His profanity-laced descriptions of gang life in a Los Angeles ghetto fostered a genre of hard-core black music known as "gangster rap." Tipper Gore of the Parents' Music Resource Center singled out Ice-T for the "vileness of his message...
...little mushy, a little square, a little cataclysmic. That was the response to Wilson Phillips' eponymous debut album in 1990, which sold 8 million copies and spent much of the year lording it over the pop charts. Seemingly out of nowhere, the two daughters of Beach Boy Brian Wilson and one daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas emerged as cultural heroines for a nation of confused and vulnerable adolescent girls. Their first batch of songs dealt mostly with young love, lost love and heartbreak...
Dunne admits that her initial attempt at racing at age nine, was not exactly silver medal quality. "I heard the timekeeper cheer, and I crashed into him," she recalls of her debut in Wisconsin...