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DIED. JOHN RAITT, 88, Broadway baritone; of complications from pneumonia; in Los Angeles. To a later generation, he was known as the father of pop-blues singer Bonnie Raitt, but he became an instant star back in 1945 as Billy Bigelow, the antihero of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (their showstopping 7-min.-long Soliloquy was written for him). Raitt also starred in Broadway's Carnival in Flanders and the 1954 hit The Pajama Game...
...other end of the spectrum, Burnett said, the suite attracts celebrities like Barbra Streisand and Bonnie Raitt...
These musicians say they're angry Americans too--just at the guy running the place. This October an A-list collection of artists, including BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, BONNIE RAITT, the DIXIE CHICKS and PEARL JAM will kick off Vote for Change, a 34-city tour to help the liberal group America Coming Together unseat President Bush in November. "I'm afraid of the attitude of the people in the White House right now," says Matthews. "This is the most important election of my lifetime, and if I don't say anything, it will sit badly...
When alums run through the luminous list of famous names who have passed through Harvard’s ivied halls, a few rockers sneak in among the Supreme Court justices, laurelled writers and high-ranking politicians: Bonnie L. Raitt ’72, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello ’86 and Weezer frontman and sometime Harvard student Rivers Cuomo all did time by the Charles. But few would likely mention Jacob H. Slichter ’83-’84, whose years in the music industry have left him far from a household name?...
...honored Arts Medal recipient, Ma’s name will be added to an elite list of past-winning Harvard alumni that includes filmmaker Mira Nair ’79, director Peter Sellars ’80, author John Updike ’54, singer Bonnie Raitt ’72 and the late actor Jack Lemmon...