Word: danishness
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...celebs in the world, whose image is protected most fiercely? Barbie's. Now ever vigilant Mattel, which makes the toy, is suing MCA records for trademark infringement over Barbie Girl, a bubble-gum dance song by the Danish band Aqua. It doesn't help that the song has lyrics like "You can brush my hair/ Undress me everywhere...
Could it be that the actor has formed a permanent mind meld with the melancholy Danish prince? In a career that has spanned 15 years of movies, Kline, like the Shakespearean character he most adores, has defied all attempts at easy explanation. He routinely follows up a mainstream Hollywood star turn (like 1993's Dave) with an eccentric role in a smaller film (like last year's Fierce Creatures). He switches--almost as though compelled to do so--from dark dramas like The Ice Storm to broad comedy like In & Out, movies he made back to back. He can play...
Renaissance-man alert: VIGGO MORTENSEN, who does a mean impression of a D.H. Lawrence-quoting, gun-toting trainer and sometime Demi Moore tormentor in G.I. Jane, is actually a published poet. No sniggering, now. The actor, who speaks Spanish and Danish as well as English, has a new poetry CD called One Less Thing to Worry About. He mines his day job in his verse, which is of the spare, dark, ruminating kind, as in "Edit": "The man you were/ For one short season/ Has been pruned/ Removed/ To a well-groomed graveyard/ That smells like popcorn." Although the acting...
CHRISTIAN MORTENSEN, 114 PROOF: Danish birth registration. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Sailed to Ellis Island in 1903 on a ship named the United States. VICE: A nice fat cigar. ODDS: Clearly the Establishment pick, but in this crowd he may be just a young...
...their Netscape 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 browsers that allows web site operators to read the contents of your hard drive. So far, this is business as usual -- Microsoft experienced a security problem with its Internet Explorer browser three months ago. The rub came earlier this week, when Cabocomm, the Danish company that discovered the bug, told Netscape it wanted to be paid what a spokesman called "a large, unspecified amount of money" to give the company the solution...