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Ghosts are what history sends to remind the living that it is not done with us. This fall the shades of the 1980s have been lurking in the cobwebbed corners of America's pop culture: Michael Jackson, staring from his mug shot like a revenant; Ronald Reagan, whose culture wars CBS exhumed with its planned, then canceled mini-series. But these were only minor hauntings compared with what will happen on Sunday, as Angels in America (HBO, Dec. 7 and 14, 8 p.m. E.T.) sends the '80s crashing into American homes with a fanfare of hosannas and portents of pestilence...
Nichols, Kushner and HBO all call Angels a movie (it will debut in two parts as it did onstage but will be rerun in one-hour episodes and in one six-hour shebang), but its high-literary and low--pop culture sensibility--it references Hegel and The Wizard of Oz--best recall Dennis Potter's British mini-series. (The Singing Detective's Michael Gambon even shows up as, of course, a ghost.) And it ranks in TV history with Potter's masterworks. The key to Angels is that it is realistic and fantastic at once--a miraculous event in mundane...
...player has some nice improvements over Apple's. The large volume buttons are a plus; with the iPod, it's often easier to tear off your headphones than to turn down a song. The home button comes in handy when you're stuck deep in your music library, and pop-up menus improve navigation. Dell also scores points for compatibility. The DJ will play all the MP3s and Windows Media files in your music collection--even protected files from the new Napster--and you can also access the Musicmatch music store, which has a huge selection of 99˘ songs that...
...birthday bash for the head of Intelligent Records Shilo McDonald, the show will feature four acts on that label. The Modifiers is a trio that plays punk that you can hum along to and pop that demands attention, and they have played venues as diverse as Lollapalooza and CBGB’s in New York. The Jumblies, a quintet formed four years ago, have generated some buzz in the Boston music scene with their two EPs. They cite influences as diverse as The Smith, My Bloody Valentine, Lou Reed and dub reggae. Slater and JMC also perform, with JMC contributing...
...album kicks off with the attention-grabbing single “Coma Girl” which sounds like vintage Clash, only more pop- and reggae-tinged than the Clash ever permitted themselves. Strummer’s voice is guttural and slovenly, the antithesis of all that is slick and shiny in contemporary music. The tinge of age in Strummer’s voice gives his lyrics a classiness and authority that can’t be bought or faked, particularly on folksy ballads like “Long Shadow.” Strummer even carries off a straight-up cover...