Reconsidering the Spice Girls: how manufactured girl power became real
Reconsidering the Spice Girls: how manufactured girl power became real
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Reconsidering the Spice Girls: how manufactured girl power became real
Even as the girl group topped the charts, it was dismissed as a pop confection. Twenty-five years later, its legacy is still being written.
Actor Hal Holbrook, indelible portrayer of Mark Twain, dies at 95 Adam Bernstein In a remarkable feat of theatrical longevity, actor Hal Holbrook, who died Jan. 23 at 95, played Samuel Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — in a solo show for nearly as long as the American humorist and iconoclast was alive. “Mark Twain Tonight!” — which Mr. Holbrook conceived and debuted in 1954 — earned him a Tony Award on Broadway in 1966 and captivated more than 20 million viewers in a CBS telecast in 1967. Into his 90s, he was still crisscrossing the globe, weaving Twain’s...