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...Hong Kong's Grand Hyatt hotel, CoCo is doing a soundcheck before a Chanel pret-a-porter show. Earphones on, she belts out A Love Before Time. She is into it, but the others in the room sense something isn't right: CoCo sounds like a weak lounge singer at a crowded bar. Her performance smile fades as sister Nancy gives her the bad news. Throwing her shoulders back, the singer barks commands to the soundman, masking her anger with a shiny smile. With precision, Nancy and CoCo go over what needs to be done. Soon the technical problems...
...Sony, her label since 1995. "She's more focused on what she wants and what she wants to accomplish." One project will combine rhythm and blues with Chinese-influenced vocals and instruments. "At first people said, 'You're a dreamer, there's no way you could become an international singer,'" CoCo says. "Or, 'There's no way you could release an English album.' Or, 'There's no way you could sing R. and B. and soul.' I've proven them all wrong. I want to tell my fans: as long as you believe and work hard, you will achieve anything...
DIED. JOHN PHILLIPS, 65, singer-songwriter who founded '60s folk-rock band the Mamas and the Papas and wrote its biggest hits, including California Dreamin' and Monday, Monday; in Los Angeles. Formed in 1965, the group had six Top 10 hits in three years. Phillips, right, who died of heart failure, had overcome years of drug and alcohol abuse. DIED. DAVID MCTAGGART, 69, who co-founded the environmental pressure group Greenpeace and built it into a worldwide movement, killed in a car crash; in Castiglione del Lago, Italy. DIED. WILLIAM HANNA, 90, animation pioneer whose 50-year partnership with Joseph...
...latent anti-Americanism be harnessed to the cause of global climate control? The Greens in the European Parliament, decrying the White House's "irresponsible and egoistic approach to this global threat," called last week for a boycott of American oil companies like ExxonMobil and Texaco. Others, such as Stephan Singer of wwf International, think such moves are counterproductive. "American companies aren't that concerned with whether a few thousand people less buy their gas in Europe," he says. "A boycott will just let the Europeans off the hook." In fact, Europe and the rest of the world now seem determined...
...from strangers. In the series' second episode, the Josh Dodes Band plays a dismal gig at a Chicago Hard Rock Cafe, asking the indifferent crowd to pop by its concert later in the week and help it win a TV game show. "It's all based around money," lead singer Dodes explains. Self-consciously, he grins. "And what the hell isn't?" For a moment, the phrase reality TV seems just about right...