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...began with the tux-clad banjoist joining the Blair String Quartet in a four-movement classical work by Fleck and composer Edgar Meyer. It ended with a jazz section riffed by Bela and the trio that became the Flecktones: Howard Levy on keyboards and harmonica, the brothers Victor and Roy ("Future Man") Wooten on bass guitar and Drumitar (a guitar wired to electric drums). Bela Fleck and Guests was one of the series' most popular programs and led to the record album. "I want to give people stuff they can move to and that is melodic, and that is also...
Traveling Wilbury:Rumors have it that the musical group has been looking for a guitarist ever since the great Roy Orbison died last year. With his prep school background and solid looks, Bok could add to the group's mainstream appeal. Likewise, even a short stint with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty would go a long way toward rebuilding Bok's activist image. The downside: At this point, Bok's only musical talent consists in being able to sing "10 Thousand Men of Harvard" backwards. Odds...
...celebrity ("The spotlight," he says, "sheds a poison"), but he can't see that he himself will eventually succumb. In the '50s Winchell gets trounced by television while archrival Ed Sullivan becomes an unlikely Sunday-night institution. A scrappy booster of F.D.R.'s, Winchell gets flummoxed and outfoxed by Roy Cohn and the red- baiters. An anomaly, Winchell throws in his famous fedora and moves to a resentful retirement in Arizona. Herr's vision of Winchell's fate is a fitting postlude, balancing irony and sympathy. He knows that, for Winchell, true hell is closing out of town...
...flew to Moscow on April 1, bringing a typed copy of the essay. Historian Roy Medvedev came to see me that evening, and I exchanged it for the final chapters of his book on Stalin. Medvedev showed my essay to friends (which I had given him permission to do), and he passed on their comments. After making a few changes, I gave the manuscript back to Medvedev. He was going to produce a dozen or more carbon copies. Some, he warned me, might end up abroad. I replied that I had taken that into account. (We were communicating in writing...
SIEGFRIED AND ROY AT THE MIRAGE IN LAS VEGAS. If the flame-spewing volcano, the fish-filled tanks and the Polynesian-style gaming tables fail to bedazzle you, take in the hottest show on the Strip. Illusion prevails as a five-ton elephant disappears, Royal White tigers strut their stuff and glitzy dancing girls in armor play with a fire-breathing dragon...