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...story leading up to the British rock band Elastica's new album, The Menace (Atlantic), plays like an episode of VH1's Behind the Music. In 1995, Elastica's self-titled debut CD topped the British charts with a caustic but catchy blend of late '70s new wave and '90s pop. Front woman Justine Frischmann's romantic relationship with Damon Albarn, the lead singer for the Britpop band Blur, attracted even more attention in the British press. Then Elastica's single Connection became a big hit in the U.S., and the album eventually sold a million copies worldwide...
Those attitudes may be weakening, if slowly. Another of Sagansky's pet projects, Mysterious Ways, had the strongest debut of a nonreality series this summer when it began a seven-week intro run on NBC, Pax's sister network (it starts on Pax Aug. 22, 8 p.m. E.T.). A drama about a duo (Adrian Pasdar and Rae Dawn Chong) who investigate suspected miracles--largely involving visitations from the dead--it's X-Files with a halo. But where The X-Files teased us for years about its alien conspiracies, the feel-good Ways is unabashedly pro-miracle. Chong is introduced...
...CHIC, LE GEEK Strange bedfellows Levi Strauss & Co. and Philips Electronics have teamed up to produce a line of high-tech, high-fashion clothes that come with electronic devices sewn right into them. The new threads, which Levi's has dubbed ICD+, were created by Massimo Osti, and will debut next month in Europe. So far the line consists of four jackets, one of which features a built-in MP3 player, cell phone and microphone. Levi's says it has no plans to launch ICD+ in the U.S. And that's O.K. with us. Really...
...Gore's 60-second "1969" likewise picks up from his convention debut, namely, from his "Wonder Years"-style bio film. "Nineteen sixty-nine," the voiceover declares, to footage of riots and police with nightsticks - "America in turmoil," thus fulfilling the customary obligation of using "turmoil" in the same sentence as any reference to a year in the late '60s. "Al Gore graduates college. His father, a U.S. senator, opposes the Vietnam War. Al Gore has his doubts, but enlists in the Army...
...years ago, when the Ford Explorer was about to make its debut, Ford discovered it had a problem: In internal tests, the Explorer notched a worse rollover rate than rival Chevy's Blazer, and worse even than - gasp - its own notoriously tipsy Bronco II. The Explorer "must at least be equivalent to the [Bronco II] in these maneuvers to be considered acceptable for production," a Ford engineer wrote in a 1989 memo. Something had to be done; this was to be a family...