Word: backstreeters
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There was a time when the Backstreet Boys could stand in an airport crooning about the way in which they wanted it, and I was willing to give it to them. But every time Nick Carter reaches his hand out to me in the video for their new single, “Inconsolable,” I don’t grasp wildly at the air in front of me to squeeze it. Instead, I back away warily from the middle-aged man on my TV screen. The video begins with a heavy-set Carter sprawled out on the beach...
...differences between the culture of exposure and the culture of propriety go far beyond sex and sartorial choices. One of my first journalistic assignments came from an American women's magazine. In September 1994, when Cairo was hosting a U.N. population conference, CNN aired footage of the backstreet genital mutilation of a young Egyptian girl. Egypt's conservatives claimed that CNN and the girl's family had shamed Egypt on the world stage. A year on, I was to find the girl and do an update. After a few phone calls in Cairo, I begged off the assignment: the girl...
...bully, part stage mother, and part egomaniac, and inevitably, the singers under their strict control rebel against them. But Svengalis are going through a particularly rough patch these days. Phil Spector, one of the most renowned and controlling, is on trial for murder. Lou Pearlman, who helped concoct the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync by way of his boy-band factory in Florida, has been unceremoniously dragged back to the U.S. from Guam to face bank-fraud charges...
...favor of acne, angst, and horrible music by ordering your ticket to Jingle Ball on Thursday, Dec. 14 at 7 p.m. Then tell us how it was, because we were really jealous of that girl in middle school who got tickets each year because her dad like owned the Backstreet Boys. Come to think of it, she was always a pretty huge bitch...
...SMALL PLATES CINDY PAWLCYN Famed for herwork at Fog City Diner, Mustards Grill and Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen, Pawlcyn has been an integral part of the California dining scene for more than two decades. In this book, her third, she culls the best small plates from each of her restaurants, including starters, soups and sweets. Among them are light and airy gougres, silky-smooth corn custards topped with buttery morel mushrooms and delicately spiced lamb burgers...