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...second week at no. 1 and my album is out today," announced Lily Allen, and then giggled, which could have been a self-conscious reaction to her own bragging, or maybe she was simply tickled by the fact that things are going her way. The sweaty crowd at London's small but sophisticated Bush Hall last Monday already knew she was at the top of the charts - but cheered anyway. Even the blistering heat wave baking Britain's streets seemed timed to make Allen's summery blend of laid-back ska, pop and hip-hop seem all the more appropriate...
...honestly don?t know how to answer that. I wasn?t thinking of other stuff in a conscious way. I had been a big fan of Rocky and Bullwinkle and other shows in that vein that I had watched and appreciated as a kid. When I got older I saw all of these things I had never seen before or understood in [those shows]. I think one might see a subtext to Pee-wee?s Playhouse, but I don?t remember thinking about it much. There wasn?t anything in it designed to be hidden or that I didn...
...central themes of The Playhouse was that everyone is invited. Everyone is the same or everyone is different, and it?s okay to be different and to be whomever you are. I was very conscious of mixing up the cast ethnically because I felt that wasn?t happening much...
...thing more unsettling than a bunch of contestants dragging cameras to skid row as they vie for a book deal and TV pilot, it's seeing their responses critiqued as if they were singing a Christina Aguilera song ("You call that a speech?"). Messengers, to be fair, is self-conscious about that: in one scene, a homeless woman lectures TLC's cameras, "This ain't no damn zoo. These are human beings." She's right. This is possibly the best-intentioned--and creepiest--TV show you will see this year...
...risk with white-on-white decor is that it can seem disconcertingly reminiscent of an asylum, but it hasn't prevented the Ambience Hotel, ambiencehotel.com.tw, from emerging as one of the sanest accommodation choices in Taipei. Style-conscious guests will recognize the Philippe Starck and Ferruccio Laviani furnishings throughout the property, yet local design talent takes most of the credit for the beautifully sparse look of the city's first truly hip hotel. Taiwanese architect Wei-Min Lee has housed Ambience in a 10-story neon-lit tower; local designer Ted Su (the man responsible for the look of Taipei...