ed@das.llnl.GOV (Edward J. Suranyi) (04/29/91)
I found the Kate reference in the May 16 issue of _Rolling Stone_
that people have been talking about. It's on page 56, in an article
about Alek Keshishian, who directed "Truth or Dare", Madonna's latest
film. Here's the complete mention:
"He also has no trouble speaking up, as Madonna and her staff
learned. 'Can you put on something less offensive than Styx?' Alex
asks the waitress, a bubbly sort with a Glaswegian accent, who is
startled at the request. 'A place like this hould have on some Kate
Bush, low level.'
"It was Kate Bush, in a sense, who helped Alek get his chance with
Madonna, but Kate Bush had not been his first diva. Cher had been Alek's
first, at Harvard. It happened in 1985, when the Hasty Pudding Club voted
her Woman of the Year. Alek, producer of the award show, drew
baby-sitter duty. Cher's first words to him off the plane were
'_Parev, inch-bess-yes_' -- 'hello, how are you,' in Armenian. They
got along famously.
"With Kate Bush, Alek says he made Harvard history. As a senior, he
spent $2000 producing _Wuthering Heights_ as a pop opera, with music by
Bush, Billy Idol and Madonna -- the first time a theater piece had ever
been approved as a senior thesis in those hollowed groves. 'He liked
dance music, and Madonna was the queen of the dance divas and had a killer
personality,' a school friend says. 'But she was part of his art at that
point, one of the characters in this grand design of his.' While the show
was in perfromance at the American Reperatory Theater, a reviewer called
it 'Robert Wilson meets MTV.' Alek says, 'You couldn't buy a Kate Bush
album anywhere in greater Boston after that.'"
Ed
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