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Ovation: Barbra Streisand’s “Release Me”.
As a youngster, I was obsessed with Barbra Streisand. My best friend and I knew every word to every song she had ever recorded and could quote lines from all of her movies. It was my mission to own a...
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Ovation: Karen Carpenter, On The 30th Anniversary Of Her Death.
While the careers of today’s pop stars often appear to be centered on their personalities more so than their musical inclinations, it used to be that the best singers were also fantastic musicians....
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Ovation: Kayla Sloan Performs On Grand Ole Opry Stage.
Dreams really can come true. After a couple of cocktails I’ve been known to tell a story about the time that I performed on Broadway in New York City. After weeks of rehearsing I was proud to put on...
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Diatribe: Joan Rivers, Immature At Eighty, Has Gone Too Far.
I stumbled upon a rerun of E!’s Fashion Police last night while I was bumbling around the house. The program features Joan Rivers and a selection of other co-hosts critique and comment on the wardrobe...
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Ovation: The Anniversary Of WHAM!’s Farewell Concert.
I’m not ashamed to admit that, during their early-1980s heyday, I was a big fan of WHAM! The British duo of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, who were known for a time in the United States as...
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Diatribe: Miley Cyrus – Topless On Rolling Stone At Twenty.
I want to like her … I really do. Miley Cyrus always seemed like a nice girl. She appeared to be reasonably talented, in that Disney sort of way, had a respectable singing voice and she was cute. A...
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Ovation: Britney Spears Dials It Back.
After quite a long time out of the spotlight, Britney Spears debuted a new video earlier this week. The title of the song is “Work B***h” and the video is quite sexy. Throughout the 3:55 video,...
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Ovation: Alex Newell’s Most Unique Performance Ever.
I first heard Alex Newell sing when I watched season one of The Glee Project on the Oxygen Channel. The series served as an audition for the FOX musical comedy series Glee and the prize for the winner...
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Diatribe: Gaga + Muppets = Confusion.
As far as I’m concerned, some thing just don’t go together at Thanksgiving. For example, I don’t like the combined taste of green beans and sage, I’ve never enjoyed cranberry sauce with turkey and I...
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Diatribe: Biebers, Meet The Lohans And Learn Something.
Teenagers have been sneaking drinks from their parents’ liquor cabinets for generations. They’ve been using fake IDs to buy six-packs to bring back to dorm rooms since six-packs and dorm rooms were...
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Ovation: Queen & Adam Lambert Announce North American Summer Tour.
Singer Adam Lambert, who rose to fame when he appeared on season eight of American Idol and made history in May 2012 by becoming the first openly gay vocalist to have an album debut at number one on...
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Diatribe: After More Than 40 Years, Bob Mackie Parts Ways With Cher.
About ten years ago I was fortunate enough to see the legendary Cher perform in Living Proof: The Farewell Tour. It was the artist’s seventh concert tour to promote her twenty-fourth studio album,...
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