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Puppetry as subversive performance art may have seemed silly in Being John Malkovich, but with this new video, puppets may become the new cartoons. The Brit-Pop band had Jim Henson's Creature Shop build 15-ft., Sesame Street-colored bodies for the members to rest (and bounce) their tiny heads. Directed by Hammer and Tongs, the video is much more daring, and fun, than Sisqo's The Thong Song...
...Ruby, a rabbi's wife, solves a murder 2. A Brit traipses across America 3. How entomology can help in the courts 4. A teenager's wacky diary entries 5. Cooking-inspired family memoir 6. America, c. 1998. Quite a place 7. The amazing world of day trading...
...appeal. But do girls really want a boy who knows how to exfoliate? Hell yeah, according to this month's Talk Magazine-the new heterosexual ideal is "Just Gay Enough." To be "J.G.E," you have to be proud of your omnisexual vibe. Poster children include Guy Ritchie (involved with Brit-aspiring gay icon Madonna), Matt Damon (the "boy" to Affleck's "man"), Vince Vaughn (embraces his own awkwardness), Edward Norton (always on the borderline of being a priss) or Matthew Perry (proud of his own insecurities). The line is ever-so-thin between "Not Quite Gay Enough" or "Just...
...dash off Radiohead comparisons with any British rock band with intelligent lyrics, but Scottish indie rock band Travis are far too important, both commercially (2 million UK copies sold, which to put in perspective is almost one-and-a-half times what Britney Spears sold over there) and artistically (Brit Award winners) to be analyzed merely by comparison. Perhaps the best rock album of 1999, The Man Who's sold the world over, and it finally receives a belated American release just in time to support the band's current tour with Oasis...
...Howls, raps and roars for Cerys (KER-ruhs) Matthews. The voice that leads Brit band Catatonia can be aptly described as Sylvia Plath on stiletto heels-part suicidal poet, part femme fatale. In any given moment her tone is lacerating, yet as diffuse as air breathed through reeds. An eclectic mixture of Beth Gibbons, Lucinda Williams, Julee Cruise and Fiona Apple, Matthews' voice is even more accomplished than the timbres of any of that quartet. Hers is a voice laden with overtones, complexity and luminosity, multi-faceted at times to the point of schizophrenia...