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1999 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• The weak in rock

  published December 30, 1999

  All I can remember of last year's personal top 10 was the inclusion of an acoustic Prince CD tacked on to the mail-order-only Crystal Ball.... More >>

• Out of bounds

  published December 23, 1999

  Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday lasts as long as a National Football League game -- which would be no crime were the film anything more... More >>

• Z.Z. Top

  published December 16, 1999

  Z.Z. Top Word on the street had it that XXX was the Top's best record since God... More >>

• Billy Joel

  published December 16, 1999

  Billy Joel I've seen Billy Joel in concert twice -- once when I didn't know any better... More >>

• The forever frown

  published December 16, 1999

  It only grows bigger the further away it moves; object in rear-view mirror may be smaller than it appears. After all, it was only one album, one... More >>

• Yule be sorry

  published December 9, 1999

  This is a little-told tale, perhaps because those who know it have signed confidentiality agreements -- or, in at least two cases, they have died... More >>

• The Dropout Piece

  published December 9, 1999

  Even by graveyard standards, the Southland Memorial Park in Grand Prairie is a desolate place, littered with decaying tree branches and beer cans... More >>

• Blue movie

  published December 2, 1999

  It's not surprising to discover that Perfect Blue was originally supposed to be filmed using humans. After all, the debut of director... More >>

• Out Here

  published November 25, 1999

  Sara Hickman Newborn (Sleeveless) No doubt... More >>

• Oh, Mann

  published November 25, 1999

  If Aimee Mann had sold one album for each word written about her, she'd make Alanis Morissette look like the struggling indie artist she probably... More >>

• Out There

  published November 18, 1999

  The Artist Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic (Arista/NPG... More >>

• Home movies

  published November 11, 1999

  Michael Cain moved back to the metroplex in October 1998 for one reason: to tend to his ailing father, who had been diagnosed with cancer. All at... More >>

• Batman, not Robin

  published November 11, 1999

  Had things worked out the way writer-director Kevin Smith planned, Matt Damon would not have appeared in Dogma, much less starred in it.... More >>

• Out Here

  published November 11, 1999

  Johnnie Taylor Gotta Get The Groove Back More >>

• Sweet grown-up James

  published November 11, 1999

  The kids file quietly into their seats, as though being led to a gruesome, inevitable fate. They are quiet, respectful, the shuffle of their feet... More >>

• Don Byron

  published November 4, 1999

  Don Byron The 40-year-old clarinetist would no doubt hate such a description, but Don... More >>

• Stop the music

  published October 28, 1999

  Lord, just what is it about rock and roll that so befuddles filmmakers? Save for This Is Spinal Tap, there has never been a movie about the... More >>

• Robbie Williams

  published October 28, 1999

  Robbie Williams So sad they had to move this show from the Bronco Bowl to Deep Ellum Live... More >>

• Rock this town

  published October 28, 1999

  Best-of lists -- which have filled the pages of newspapers and magazines ever since the calendar read January 2, 1999 -- probably shouldn't exist... More >>

• Pet Shop Boys

  published October 21, 1999

  Pet Shop Boys "The music's blandness is part of the quite well-executed concept:... More >>

• Out Here

  published October 21, 1999

  Marchel Ivery 3 (Leaning House Records) It's... More >>

• Heads up

  published October 21, 1999

  It was the most unlikely reunion -- and, perhaps, a most empty one, since it would lead to absolutely nothing at all except more hard feelings,... More >>

• The product

  published October 21, 1999

  Pat Toomay's name is not so prominent in the history books, perhaps because he played for the Dallas Cowboys between a beloved veteran (George... More >>

• Los Lobos

  published October 14, 1999

  Los Lobos Most bands don't grow; they either shuffle forward, tripping over lazy feet, or... More >>

• Out There

  published October 14, 1999

  Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs, Vols. 1-3 (Merge... More >>