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...problem with using shock tactics to get a message across is that they must get more shocking each time. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has taken its antifur campaign beyond nudes on billboards. During fashion week in New York City, 15 male and female models from the Boss agency, which has declared itself "fur free," are planning to create a living PETA billboard. The models (including Calvin Klein poster boys MARCUS SCHENKENBERG, third from left, and JOEL WEST, fourth from right) will climb out of limos, drop their white terry-cloth robes in public...
...irony, says Chicago architect Nestor Popowych, president of a wireless-development group, is that there is a better way. After all, a tower is just a post for antennas, and any tall structure--a water tower, a billboard, a stanchion in a football stadium--can serve the purpose. Companies can further lessen the unsightliness by clustering their antennas at a common site. When a tower must be built, it can often be camouflaged so that it looks like a silo on a barn, a bell tower on a church, even a palm or pine tree. In fact, insists Lowell McAdam...
...make comedy albums: Back in Town, his latest, is his 17th. But now it seems that Carlin has hung around long enough to be back in step with the times. Four comedy CDs--by Jeff Foxworthy, Adam Sandler, "Weird Al" Yankovic and the Jerky Boys--have made it to Billboard's Top 25 this year. New comedy labels are being launched--one by Eddie Murphy--and classic albums are being reissued. It's hardly a return to the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s, when albums like The 2000-Year-Old Man and My Son, the Folksinger were nationwide...
...Hanks playing a record-label exec who manages a one-hit pop group. Both films boast new songs composed in period style. And The Preacher's Wife will offer Whitney Houston putting over surefire spirituals with a gospel choir. That's the kind of musical both Variety and Billboard can understand...
...Razor & Tie records), an audio collection of her TV appearances with Godfrey. A stage show, Always...Patsy Cline, played for two years in Nashville, Tennessee. The star of Always, Mandy Barnett, has just released her own album of Cline-inflected tunes. And for weeks the hottest country CD on Billboard's pop charts has been Blue, in which 13-year-old Texas phenom LeAnn Rimes does similarly in-Clined material, including the title song, which was written originally for the dead star. There's musical multiplicity in the country air: the invasion of the Patsy Clones...