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OVEL L4D
By all accounts, last summer's Lilith
Fair concert tour was a good thing.
But Arista's Lilith Fair: A Celebration
of Women in Music (Arista) is way too
much of a good thing.
Tour creator/album executive pro-
ducer Sarah McLachlan deserves all
the credit in the world for creating her
female-centric roadshow out of noth-
ing. But McLachlan's inclusive impuls-
es prevented her from making tough
editing decisions: What could have
been a sparkling one-CD set became
an unwieldy two-platter collection.
Yes, Shawn Colvin and Paula Cole
and Joan Osborne deserve to be
included, but do we really need Tracy
Bonham, Susanna Hoffs (the Jewish
member of the now-defunct Bangles)
and Tara MacLean?
With a few notable exclusions —
Ani Difranco, Gillian Welch, Sheryl
Crow, Bjork — McLachlan's Lilith
Fair lineup included the most exciting
women artists around.
Paula Cole's haunting ballad
"Mississippi" gets the 25-song collec-
tion off to a rousing start and the rest
of the artists gathered on Disc One
carry the torch admirably.
September 67's "Loneliness of the
Long Distance Runner" is cool and
lush and picture-pretty — a real find.
Dayna Manning's "I Want" captures
the excited ten-
sion of desire,
and the
Cardigan's
"Been It" tosses
a little modern
rock edge into
this roots-rock
heavy mix.
Disc Two is a
major letdown,
however.
Emmylou
Harris' "Going
Back to Harlan"
is shrill and
repetitive,
Meredith
Brooks' "Wash
My Hands" is a
sloppy mess,
and too many
other tracks —
Patty Griffin's "Cain," Wild
Strawberries' "I Don't Want To Think
About It," Wild Colonials' "Charm"
— should have been left
off the album.
Overcrowding aside, the
best thing about this
record is that McLachlan
doesn't make the easy or
obvious choices. Yes, Lisa
Loeb is represented on the
album, but not by her
huge No. 1 hit, "Stay (I
Missed You)."
Instead, we get a
glimpse of the Jewish
songstress's newer, more
sophisticated and less ubiq-
uitous "Falling in Love."
The same holds for
Osborne ("Ladder" instead
of "One of Us"), Meredith Brooks
("Wash My Hands" instead of
"Bitch") and Suzanne Vega ("Rock in
c—\
This Pocket" instead of "Luka").
— Reviewed by John Godfrey,
Copley News Service
CREME DE CANNES
The main course and surprise hit of
this year's Cannes Film Festival, the
winner of its Palm d'Or (Grand Jury
Prize) and the most controversial film
of the festival was filmmaker Robertol-
Benigni's La Vie Est Belle ("Life is
Beautiful").
The film tells the story of a man
trying to shield his son from the hor-
rors of the death camps of Germany
during the Holocaust years.
The great comic actor Roberto
Benigni directed, stars in and co-wrote
the film, presenting a poetic scenario
— bordering between the tones of
Chaplin and Lubitsch — to offer what
has never been done before: make a
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Above: Roberto Benigi,
left; Giorgio Cantari,
center; and Nicoletta
Braschi, right, in
Benigi's "Life is
Beautiful."
Left: Roberto Benigi
"Life is Beautiful.