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Aside from this handful of gems, "Charlie's Angels" fell flat as trash TV. The reason? Successful exploitative entertainment is created by people who are either entirely honest about what they're doing (in the unrepentantly sleazy manner of professional wrestling) or blissfully unaware of how bizarre their creation actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astro Zombies and Corpse Grinders | 11/10/2000 | See Source »

Rollins closed out the performance with another calypso, the West Indian folksong "Don't Stop the Carnival." Rollins seemed to feed off the energy of the crowd, playfully examining the entire range of his tenor saxophone, conjuring the highest altissimo wails and lowest foghorn blares. He then paused, while the...

Author: By Malik B. Ali, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jazz Colussus Strides into Town | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

The most striking pieces of the exhibition were the photographs by Meridel Rubenstein, Craig McDean and David Perry, which capture the people behind the cars, the lives they lead and the pride they take in their cars. McDean focuses on car races, distilling the essence of their carnival atmosphere. The...

Author: By Adrian Foo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: VROOM, VROOM: CARS AS ART AND ART ABOUT CARS AT THE ICA | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

Televised baseball, especially in big games that are the sport's full carnival, offers an individualism of faces, closeups of intense privacy (pitchers thinking, scratching themselves, anguishing, waving off the sign, spitting, trying to deliver a ball very hard from mound to plate with precision, as if a neurosurgeon were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Wish I Could Be a Yankee Fan, but I Can't... | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

Which brings me to my next point: Elizabeth Hurley is a fairly well-known actress, and while not famous for her talent, after Austin Powers she could choose to make money wearing jeans and a T-shirt. What is she doing in this movie, with each costume putting progressively more...

Author: By Matthew Callahan, | Title: Bewitched, Bewildered, Bothered | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

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