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...current paparazzi cult of celebrity is reflected in the vast array of portraits from actors and popular figures. Jenny Lind and Lola Montez, respectively a singer and a dancer, may have had their careers bolstered—or indeed wholly founded—on the strength of the gorgeous daguerreotypes of them and the lithographs copied from these, but they are overwhelmed by the star of this show. Edwin Forrest, an actor from the 1850s, was renowned for his portrayals of theater’s great heroic figures, and his huge twelve-inch-by-ten-inch daguerreotype reflects in faithful...
...upbeat, self-confessing rocker that is quintessential road music. Instead of upping the ante, Benson then moves down a gear into “Metarie,” a frankly earnest ballad about the first, halting steps of a burgeoning relationship. Folky guitars, ascending chromatic tones and backing-singer Emma J’s plaintive voice lend the track a haunting, ethereal quality, but for want of a female vocalist, “Metarie” unfortunately didn’t make it into the TT’s performance...
...hospital last summer. Her most recent album, released on Sept. 11, sold just 478,000 copies and cost her record company $10 million. And if that weren’t bad enough, A Walk to Remember, the highly forgettable movie debut of third-rate pop singer Mandy Moore, just earned in its first weekend nearly three times what Carey’s Glitter grossed in its entire...
From the first time Carey’s album sales began to drop, and certainly in the months since the disastrous Glitter, entertainment industry observers from People to the New York Times have postulated their theories about what the 31-year-old singer must do to revive her career. Some have suggested she return to the effervescent pop that originally made her a star, while others have urged her to reclaim the fully-clothed good-girl image she originally presented on MTV and in concert...
DIED. PEGGY LEE, 81, smoldering, velvety-voiced pop-jazz singer who started with Benny Goodman's orchestra and went on to record hits like Fever and Is That All There Is?; in Los Angeles. (See Eulogy...