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...MICHAEL JACKSON's 30th Anniversary Celebration, the Solo Years--a two-night, self-thrown tribute to be held at Madison Square Garden in September--is bound to be a cornucopia of good taste. Liza Minnelli will perform You Are Not Alone with a 300-voice gospel choir; Marlon Brando will make a rare live non-nude appearance; and the JACKSON 5--older and stiffer but surely just as cute--will reunite. Indeed, five Jacksons will reunite--but not all are original. Citing "the exorbitant prices being charged" for the event, Jermaine Jackson is a conscientious objector. Jermaine claimed that...
DIED. EUDORA WELTY, 92, luminous Southern author; in Jackson, Miss. Welty's keen sense of observation fueled not just her writing but her photographs. She was immortalized too when a software designer named his e-mail program Eudora after her. See Eulogy, below...
...pride goeth before a fall, look for 'N Sync to be arriving soon in a ravine near you. The boys open their third album with Pop and Celebrity, Michael Jackson-style salvos against, respectively, the critics who await their demise and the hangers-on who like them only for their fame. But even when ranting, 'N Sync wields its pop hooks like weapons; they nail every chorus, emote feverishly on the ballads and hedge their bets on the whole pop thing by bouncing between techno, two-step, hip-hop and any other style Billboard might one day have a chart...
...Spanish Civil War. DIED. MILTON GABLER, 90, music producer who founded Commodore Records, the first U.S. independent jazz label; in New York City. He worked with jazz greats Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee. DIED. EUDORA WELTY, 92, American author hailed as a master of the short story; in Jackson, Mississippi. Welty's incisive tales, inspired by her observations of Southern life, earned her numerous awards, including a 1973 Pulitzer Prize for the novel The Optimist's Daughter. (See Eulogy) DIED. AVELINE KUSHI, 78, macrobiotic cookbook author who opened one of the first natural foods stores in the U.S.; in Brookline...
...people young enough to blow all their money at the record store, the `80s ended in 1991. Ten years ago this September, Nirvana's alternative rock opus Nevermind hit the racks and its first song, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," went into heavy rotation on MTV. When it knocked Michael Jackson off the number one spot on the Billboard charts and went platinum many times over, it appeared to brush aside single-handedly the peppy Reagan-era pop that had lingered for years after the junk bond party was over, the way Boris Yeltsin had appeared to brush aside the antiquated...