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Tuesday, December 04, 2001
LIFE IN THE POP LANE
A black eye for black television
(By Renee Graham, Globe Staff)
Once, it was enough that something called Black Entertainment Television even existed.
Her drive makes news at CNBC
(By Suzanne C. Ryan, Globe Staff)
When Pamela Thomas-Graham was growing up in Detroit, her parents urged her to aim high in life. She shot for the moon.
A library and its discontents
(By Alex Beam, Globe Staff)
Asharp-eyed reader spotted this advertisement in a recent issue of Publishers Weekly: ''Major Boston publisher is looking for a Senior Executive Editor to oversee the development of an editorial publishing plan for the published and unpublished material of an acclaimed 19th-century author. This senior editor will be the `editorial visionary' of the product line'' etc., etc.
ANN LANDERS
A few words of warning about the dentist
(By Ann Landers)
Dear Ann Landers: I am a dental hygienist who works for a mediocre dentist. There are many reasons why I continue to work here, but respect for my employer's work is not one of them. Recently, a patient arrived in tears because her new bridgework had fallen out while she was eating. A month earlier, another bridge was re-cemented for the third time. This woman was not upset with her dentist, she simply thought she had bad luck. It never occurred to her that the bridgework kept falling out because it was designed poorly and did not fit.
Go! Tuesday
(By Christopher Muther, Globe Staff)
Hark! Clarence the angel rings
BOOK REVIEW
Novel approach to James Taylor story
(By Scott Alarik, Globe Correspondent)
Bob Dylan may have invented the template of the modern singer-songwriter, but it was James Taylor who defined it. The songwriters of today are cut far more from Taylor's confessional cloth. And more than any of his 1960s and '70s songwriting peers, Taylor has remained a consistently viable commercial star.
ASK BETH
She realizes it's not just harmless flirting
(By The Globe)
Dear Beth: First of all you have to know I am a flirt. I flirt with anything that's male and breathes. And that lands me in trouble a lot! I don't like to go all the way with guys, but I do flirt.
NOW AND THEN
Growing up at a time when fat was fitting
(By Donald M. Murray, Globe Correspondent)
Once upon a time - a very long time ago - I became thin and was introduced to shame.
THE MEDIA
BC an objective observer on the battlefield
(By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff)
Americans feeling good about the course of the war in Afghanistan were provided with a dramatically different side of the story last week in a ''BBC Newshour'' report. The correspondent described a bedraggled Afghan refugee near Kandahar ''extremely upset ... that an American aircraft had just attacked his village.''
Names & Faces
(By Jim Sullivan, Globe Staff)
Harrison adieu...
Rimes re-signs with record label she sued
(By Phyllis Stark Billboard)
NASHVILLE - Somewhere between the themes of such career-spanning Curb Records hits as ''Blue,'' ''Big Deal,'' and ''Commitment'' may lie the ultimate lessons thus far in the tumultuous story of LeAnn Rimes's success. After a year of battling in court to be free of the contract she signed with Curb at the age of 12, Rimes has made the surprising decision to re-sign with the label that launched her into stardom.
MUSIC REVIEW
McKnight shows he's more than a balladeer
(By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff)
MusicReview Brian McKnight is all about songs - a rarity in contemporary R&B, which is saturated with faceless grooves and dispassionate licks. He writes the songs, plays every instrument (another novelty: instruments), and produces music with unerring taste and sensitivity.
MUSIC REVIEW
Triple Helix explores Beethoven's mysteries
(By Ellen Pfeifer, Globe Correspondent)
WELLESLEY - The first concert in Triple Helix's survey of the Beethoven Piano Trios overwhelmed the modest capacity of the auditorium at the Jewett Arts Center in September. So for Sunday night's second installment, the ensemble (Lois Shapiro, piano; Bayla Keyes, violin; Rhonda Rider, cello) moved to the more capacious Houghton Chapel. That venue too was filled - not just for the performance but also for the lecture-demonstration by the Harvard scholar Lewis Lockwood that preceded it. Clearly the audience knows it's on to something special.
MUSIC REVIEW
Cellist Wiley proves in tune with quartet
(By Richard Dyer, Globe Staff)
The Guarneri Quartet has been filling Jordan Hall for more than three decades, but there was a special interest in Sunday afternoon's concert: It was the first local appearance of the quartet with its new cellist, Peter Wiley, himself an old friend of Boston chamber-music audiences.
TV & RADIO
Dave Matthews tops VH1 picks
(By The Globe)
LLOS ANGELES - The Dave Matthews Band was the clear favorite at Sunday's ''My VH1 Music Awards `01,'' receiving four awards in all, including the Favorite Group honors, as well as Must Have Album.
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