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...Former journeyman singer Anthony Garfield Henry now has a better name, Gucci shades and big rings, and is being hailed as opera's P. Diddy (although what this means is anyone's guess - will he date Jennifer Lopez and fire weapons in crowded opera halls?). Warner Music is trumpeting his 34.3 million, five-album contract - one of which will be an opera-style CD of pop songs. Opera meets rap - well, at least he's got the niche to himself. Commercial potential: $$$$ Artistry: Too soon to tell...
...this new generation already endangered? As the Beats spawned the beatniks--beret-wearing urbanites who hung out in coffee shops--the hipsters too have their imitators. "There's definitely the hipsters, and then there's the gypsters," jokes Blake Miller, 33, the lead singer of Moving Units, a punk-inspired Silver Lake band. "There's people who figured out they just need to go to a thrift store and buy a tattered blazer and cut one side of their hair shorter than the other. And that's unfortunate because that usually is the first sign of a scene getting ready...
Nary a review of the no-frills garage-rock band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs appears without gushing mention of lead singer Karen O's louche wardrobe. These getups are neither the flamboyant showstoppers of Madonna nor the fetishistic confections of Britney. The O oeuvre consists of punk livery that would make Siouxsie Sioux proud: slashed prom dresses, hole-riddled T shirts, laddered fishnets, fingerless leather gloves, studded cuffs and Converse sneakers etched with a marker. It's the work of designer Christian Joy, and it's influencing fashion the way only a rock star's wardrobe...
DIED. GREGORY HINES, 57, modernizer of the ancient art of tap dancing; in Los Angeles. Like Sammy Davis Jr., he was a kid in a family song-and-dance act--Hines, Hines & Dad--and went on to star in a multitude of media: as singer (combining for duets with Luther Vandross), as movie star (swapping moves with Mikhail Baryshnikov in White Nights, cracking wise with Billy Crystal in Running Scared), as TV actor (playing '30s tap master Bill Robinson in Bojangles) and as Tony-winning Broadway headliner (in Jelly's Last Jam). His greatest gift, however, was in his feet...
...lifelong pianist and singer says that he learned one significant lesson from his time as the registrar in New Haven...