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...Pavarotti" with his 1990 performance in La Traviata at Milan's La Scala. When, six years later, he married the sensational young Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu, you could almost hear record company executives cheer. By Three Tenors standards, however, the couple's sales have disappointed. Alagna's label, EMI, is reluctant to disclose figures, but according to music retailer HMV, his best showing-an album of duets with Gheorghiu-sold no more than 70,000 copies in Britain. Critically overshadowed by his wife, Alagna and his voice seem to be showing the pressure. Says Rupert Christiansen, opera critic of Britain...
...this makes some wonder if Branson does too much. In fact, Whitehorn told Time that Virgin is going to stop launching lines in order to expand its current businesses into new markets. But the vital point is that like any brand, the Virgin label is part illusion. (Did Coke ever really teach the world to sing? Is Virgin Cola anything but another kind of bubbly brown-sugar water packed into bright red cans?) Branson says he's the business world's equivalent of Ralph Nader. His Virgin Atlantic really did innovate business-class air travel and as Virgin Blue airline...
DIED. STANLEY KRAMER, 87, producer-director and grudging bearer of the label "message filmmaker" who received nine Oscar nominations but never won; in Los Angeles. Kramer used film to wrestle with such knotty themes as racism (The Defiant Ones), nuclear holocaust (On the Beach) and Nazi war crimes (Judgment at Nuremberg). Toward the end of his career, critics routinely panned his films--even box-office successes like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner--as oversimplified and maudlin...
...exciting careers in glamorous fields. There was Trey, an American magazine writer, like myself, in his 20s; Hiroko, a Japanese woman in her 30s who worked for a Tokyo woman's magazine; Delphine, an aspiring French model and Miki, an A. and R. man for a Japanese record label. When we would sit down together in my Nishi Azabu apartment to smoke the drug, our talk turned to grandiose plans and sure-fire schemes. I spoke of articles I would write. Delphine talked about landing a job doing a Dior lingerie catalog. Miki raved about a promising noise band...
...Media people often label this a bad thing. They don't tell that to viewers because they don't want to alienate them even further. But you can make the argument that it's a sign of the health of the republic when people are not interested in Washington. If that government governs best which governs least, then lack of attention to government is a sign that government isn't meddling too much in people's lives. This is the classic Ronald Reagan argument that government is the problem, not the solution. He would have been happy had government withered...