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...most difficult, by the way - and never seeks to dominate. Being the star (in early 1963, he was at the peak of his early fame) he could easily have hogged the sessions, grabbed two out of the three verses. But no. These are real duets, not a lead singer with a backup...
...former drinking buddy of the Possum. Peanut also had achieved dubious fame as being the man at the wrong end of one of Jones' most notorious episodes: He narrowly missed being shot by a bullet from Jones' .38 revolver. The incident occurred in late 1978 when the singer, at his lowest ebb after his D-I-V-O-R-C-E from Wynette, got drunk and took a potshot at Peanut...
...even those who think they are familiar with the band may be surprised to be reminded what a great ballad singer Cesar Rosas can be; or what a formidable array of guitar players they have on hand, especially David Hidalgo; or how many bases they manage to successfully cover - literally: in addition to the traditional material, their cover versions include songs by Richard Thompson, Johnny Thunders, the Beatles, the Grateful Dead and Doc Pomus, but Los Lobos manage to make them all sound like they're hatched from the same egg. Their outside projects have furthered these diverse interests...
...movies have always had a problem with race. The first talking film, The Jazz Singer, was, of course, about a white guy in blackface. And don't get me started on Driving Miss Daisy, or the fact that the black guy who played the fourth Ghostbuster didn't get to do much of anything. But recently, Hollywood has been working especially hard to establish two onscreen stereotypes. The first is the Magical African-American Friend. Along with Bagger Vance, MAAFs appear in such films as What Dreams May Come (1998), the upcoming Family Man (co-starring Don Cheadle) and last...
...really like to kick the stuffing out of some nuns. On Sisters of Mercy, a song from her Internet-only release not.com.mercial Cher gives the lyrical smackdown to nuns that ran an orphanage where she stayed as a child while her mother waitressed at an all-night diner. The singer calls the sisters "mothers of shame," "masters of pain" and "twisters of truth," which doesn't quite rhyme, but makes the point. The Catholic League is unimpressed. "Much like the rest of Hollywood," says a spokesman, "she is trying to sell her CD on the backs of Roman Catholics." Considering...