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...someone to the forefront out of some sort of pathetic attempt to exclude artists who have a gift of musicianship: Shawn Colvin, A Few Small Repairs; Sting, Mercury Falling; Keb 'Mo', Just Like You; Beatles, Anthology III; Paula Cole, This Fire; Lyle Lovett, The Road to Ensenada; and Chris Isaak, Baja Sessions. CARL WIDING, Program Director KINK-FM Portland, Oregon...
...opinion about these drifters and their crimes. This conceptual uncertainty may explain strange, meaningless scenes like one in which color suddenly fades to black and white and we see Roberts, moody and shirtless, playing guitar on a boat in Mexico as if he'd run away to a Chris Isaak video. Maybe we are being told that society's true enemy is the frustrated musician...
...Seattle, Washington, and leapfrogs millenniums from the Buddha's birth in 2500 B.C. to today. In Bhutan a Tibetan monk named Lama Norbu (Ying Ruocheng) hears that an American boy, Jesse Conrad (Alex Wiesendanger), may be the reincarnation of an important lama. Incredulous at first, Jesse's parents (Chris Isaak and Bridget Fonda) are sufficiently impressed by Lama Norbu's otherworldly sweetness that they allow the boy to keep company with him, and eventually to journey to Bhutan with his father and two other candidates for the exalted position of reincarnated holy...
Until Hollywood calls again, Isaak, who will tour with his band in the U.S. and Europe this summer, is raring to return to his first and deepest love. "I want to sing every day," he says. "I've had girlfriends who said, 'Every time you're upset, you grab your guitar.' " And if you can believe him, he grabs it a lot. "Being happy or unhappy has got very little to do with how much stuff you have or how well your career is going," he explains. "But I haven't given up hope. I'm still trying...
CINEMA Made in America is a deft comedy. MUSIC Chris Isaak is again steeped in cowboy blues. TELEVISION Two men dying of AIDS film a searing account of their last days. BOOKS Lenin's Tomb is a superb account of the fall of the U.S.S.R. THEATER Later Life shows A.R. Gurney at his wistful best...