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...DIED. JAMES WONG, 64, lyricist who helped father the sweetly infectious Canto-pop sounds of the 1980s and '90s; after a three-year battle with lung cancer; in Hong Kong. Wong also composed for films, television and advertising, and was also an accomplished actor, director, writer and TV talk-show host. He penned more than 1,000 songs, including the theme to Under the Lion Rock, a hit Hong Kong TV series of the 1970s...
...raunch?nothing like knowing that your penchant for outdoor sex is due to your binding zodiacal link to Dionysus, the orgiastic Greek god of wine. As Cox says, "What [readers] didn't expect were the smarty bits; they just expected the unzipped stuff, not the smarty pants themselves. Pop, but also classic, high...
...TERRY MELCHER, 62, record producer and song-writer who collaborated with Ry Cooder, the Byrds and the Beach Boys; of melanoma; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Melcher, the son of actress Doris Day, produced the Byrds' version of Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man and co-wrote the Beach Boys' pop hit Kokomo for the 1988 film Cocktail...
Billboard magazine does not publish a posthumous pop chart, but if it did, Elvis and Tupac would have an everlasting grip on the top slots. Hovering just behind them would be Jeff Buckley. Buckley was not widely known during his life, and his productivity after death, while impressive, does not yet approach that of Presley or Shakur. But careerwise, he does have a few things going for him. In 1995 he was named one of PEOPLE's 50 Most Beautiful People. Two years later, on a spring day in Memphis, Tenn., Buckley, 30, put down the guitar on which...
...stage, ice cream cones (Eastwood reversed that one in 1986). But the 1-sq.-mi. city has become a victim of its own success, as three-bedroom houses sell for $2 million and the high rents that gallery owners are willing to pay force out mom-and-pop stores. Oldtimers shrug at the city's latest dirigiste maneuver. "This is still paradise," says Wilda Northrop of the Carmel Art Association. "No matter what happens on Ocean Avenue, there's always the beautiful ocean at the end of the street." By Terry McCarthy