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Has Hollywood’s original bad boy gone good? One-time rogue Jack Nicholson lives alone, tends to his teenagers, and yearns for one last great love.
A stack of holiday albums sways precariously on my desk. It represents only a fraction of the seasonal releases this year, and an even smaller portion of the thousands of holiday albums released during the history of recorded sound. Offerings 2008 range from traditional carols and standards to reinvented rock and jazz arrangements to moody midwinter evocations of the holidays' pagan origins. Here are my favorites:
A world of larger-than-life opera magic lies at your fingertips, thanks to YouTube.
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Mavis Staples has been performing for more than 50 years. Her recent, boisterous set at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill revisited the impassioned days of the civil rights movement, for which gospel provided the soundtrack.
Studs Terkel, 96, the preeminent oral historian of 20th-century America who described the major events of his time through the experiences and observations of the ordinary men and women who lived them, died October 31, 2008 at his home in Chicago after a fall.
Music writer Richard Gehr selects 10 top holiday hits.
British novelist-biographer Philip Norman authors the comprehensive and highly readable 851-page biography, "John Lennon: The Life."
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Richard Gehr selects his top-10 Halloween songs for adults. These songs range from the harrowing to the entertainingly creepy, including Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
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