MUSIC: OLDER BUT NOT WISER

GEORGE MICHAEL, LIONEL RICHIE AND PATTI SMITH HAVE ALL COME OUT OF HIBERNATION WITH LITTLE TO SHOW FOR THEIR TIME OFF

Nostalgia comes quickly in the '90s. We watch VH1's The Big '80s and laugh at the silly videos we thought were so cool only about seven years back; we yearn for the funnier, fresher David Letterman of, oh, about a year or so ago; perhaps some of us are already feeling misty-eyed in the wake of ABC's announcement last week that Daniel Benzali--who helped make baldness telegenic--will be departing from Murder One next season.

In any case, some veteran musicians who haven't released albums in half a decade or longer may be poised to benefit from the current backward-gazing climate. These...

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