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Iroaki Doi and Mayumi Kumagai have come a long way to get lost. After a four-hour bullet-train ride from Hiroshima, the teenagers are lurking amid the neon signs of a seedy Tokyo alley, seeking a transgressive experience that will rip open the blandness of their days and allow them to escape, at least for a few hours, their part-time jobs, trade-school classes and cramped apartments. The vehicle they believe will help them achieve this temporary expansion of their consciousness: majikku masshurumu?magic mushrooms?shriveled bits of psilocybin-filled fungi that will first make them a little...
...music (lushly orchestrated with Brown himself on piano) is the least arid and most accessible of the scores turned out by his generation of Sondheim disciples. This is smart, lyric-driven music that doesn't abandon melody or variety. One number rocks; another harks back to '30s Tin Pan Alley. And a wistful, turn-of-the-century-style waltz sends you out of the theater with a lovely, warmhearted souvenir. Most of the souvenirs at The Producers cost 20 bucks...
...label to do in China? There may be 1.3 billion pairs of ears, but most of what they're listening to is pirated: either out-and-out rip-offs, or legitimate CDs written off as destroyed that somehow manage to fall off a truck and get sold in an alley. "It's pretty devastating to all the majors," says Cindy Tai, EMI's managing director for China, who estimates fakes comprise 95% of the cassette market and slightly less for CDs. But while many record companies are sitting back and hoping things will improve once China enters the World Trade...
...just one of the many ideas for interaction at broadband TV channel MTV Live, which will launch in Sweden and France in June. Want to be a graphic artist? Viewers can assemble virtual environments and e-mail their creations for consideration as background images. Is screenwriting more up your alley? MTV Live will let you select characters and write dialogue for short videos. Would-be maestros can mix and submit music to serenade MTV Live presenters. The new channel will also feature exclusive content for digital cable viewers, such as live video of the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing...
...Angeles riots, South Central is populated mostly by hardworking Latino and black families. Half its residents never completed ninth grade. Forty-three percent of its households earn less than $15,000 a year. The lure of crime and drugs is always whispering just down the alley. Yet Accelerated shows that even in this setting, academic excellence is possible...