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DIED. HILDEGARD KNEF, 76, sultry German singer and film star billed in the U.S. as the "thinking man's Marlene Dietrich"; of a lung infection; in Berlin. The diva who scandalized church officials with a fleeting nude scene in the 1951 German film The Sinner was best known in the U.S. for her role as Countess Liz in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro with Gregory Peck...
...Brown Sugar, a popular jazz haunt; call (886-2) 2322-4677 for reservations. There's no cover charge?just a $13 minimum on weekends, which six of us put toward a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label priced at only $80. We watch a sultry Louisiana jazz singer whisk the crowd into a merry meringue with a version of Teresa Teng's The Moon Represents My Heart, then, sated with food, drink and song, we roll back to the hotel...
While the insiders are probably on to something with all this talk about “image,” they seem to be forgetting the key element behind what makes a singer successful. Even in this dark time of ’NSYNC and Enrique Iglesias, singers still depend on their music more than anything else to sustain album sales and fan support. Entertainment critics talk endlessly about Madonna’s miraculous ability to “reinvent” herself and her music, but although her various costumes and public romances have helped to keep...
...decade ago. As her last album proved, making that type of music isn’t always easy to do. Her fans have not proven themselves loyal to Mariah Carey, superstar and prima donna; to win them back, she’ll need to reinvent Mariah Carey, musician and singer...
...through the album, there is the distinct impression of having heard that particular drum loop somewhere before, and the lyrics certainly aren’t going to save the album: Like Portishead, you’re doing well if you can make out anything of what the lead singer is singing about. The lack of any song with a definite groove begins to irk, and even the songs themselves seem to suffer from a lack of material. Not only is there song called “24 Hours,” but also “73 Hours...