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...fortune is estimated at $1.2 billion, is leaving after reaching the firm's mandatory retirement age but will continue to serve as nonexecutive chairman. DIED. Joseph Hill, 57, socially conscious reggae guru who became one of the genre's first prominent voices; after falling ill while on a European tour; in Berlin. In the 1970s his foreboding, heavily percussive "roots-reggae" won fans, among them British punk rockers and Virgin chief Richard Branson, who in 1978 signed Culture?the band Hill fronted for 30 years until his death?to Virgin's new reggae label, Front Line. DIED. Ed Thrasher...
DIED. Joseph Hill, 57, socially conscious reggae guru who became one of the genre's first prominent voices; after falling ill while on a European tour; in Berlin. In the 1970s his foreboding, heavily percussive "roots-reggae" won fans, among them British punk rockers and Virgin chief Richard Branson, who in 1978 signed Culture--the band Hill fronted for 30 years until his death--to Virgin's new reggae label, Front Line...
Nadal is James Dean to Federer's Cary Grant. With his shoulder-length hair, garish Capri pants (he will ditch them for the Open, he promises), sleeveless shirts that show off biceps that bulge like the Pyrenees, and hit-and-grunt technique, Nadal is the loudest player on tour. "He's like the bulls running down the street in [Pamplona]," says Bollettieri. "The bulls are going to run over every goddam thing--houses, anything." Another Nadal trademark is the leaping fist-pump; he leaves no emotion in the locker room. "This is who I am," he says. "I do what...
Ever since, Williams, 46, has moved with U2 from clubs to arenas to stadiums, revolutionizing concert visuals at every step. From the seven Trabants (compact cars built in East Germany) he hung from the rafters of U2's early '90s Zoo TV tour to the giant beaded LED curtains of the recent Vertigo shows, he has turned concrete caverns into spaces that drip with mood. And when the music starts, Williams, who pioneered the integration of video and light into a single element, turns the sets into an extravaganza that enhances but never competes with the sound...
...Girl, an underrated musical with Marvin Hamlisch's best post-Chorus Line score, that he showed how effortlessly his lithe, smallish body could take over a Broadway stage. There hasn't been much for him to do on Broadway since then - although he did cop a Tony for his tour-de-force performance in a revival of Little Me - so it took Short himself (along with Shaiman, Wittman and co-writer Daniel Goldfarb) to come up with the ideal vehicle for his ironic but totally ingratiating stage personality...