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...Beware another teenybopper pop hopeful. M2M, a Norwegian duo comprising 15- and 16-year-old Marion Raven and Marit Larsen, were featured on the Pokmon soundtrack alongside Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and 98 Degrees. With the Spice Girls producer behind them in their debut English album, these two girls will feel right at home in the current youth craze. The songs are very girly and cutesy, with lyrics that would fit right into the poetry section of Teen magazine ("Pretty pretty boy I love you"). Out of the 13 songs in the album, approximately 13 sound like the same song...
There is a strong case to made, based on Mohsin Hamid's debut novel Moth Smoke, that "Generation X" is not just an American thing. There is at least as much drug abuse in this fine new Pakistani novel as you'll find in a Winona Ryder movie, and enough navel-gazing existentialism to fill half a Lisa Loeb album...
Students should thank the COOP for cleansing Mass Ave. of this festering eyesore--its time has come. The immortal words of Bruce Springsteen, a songwriter of McCartneyian proportions who is purported to have made his Boston debut in the Bow, are appropriate: "Glory days, yeah they'll pass you by, glory days." In the case of the Bow, this is regrettable. But as for Dunkin' Donuts, I say: Good riddance...
DIED. ROGER VADIM, 72, French filmmaker whose 1956 directorial debut, And God Created Woman, launched wife Brigitte Bardot in films; of cancer; in Paris. In more than two dozen movies, Vadim won a reputation for making stars out of the stunning women he married, including Jane Fonda. Vadim, who once lived with Catherine Deneuve between marriages, explained his need for feminine beauty in his life and work as "my style, my nature...
...Kammerfeld Quartet, consisting of Joe Lin '00, Johnny Lee '01, Albert Pan '00 and Isaac Nakhimovsky '01, performed string quartets by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Brahms at their debut concert at Lowell Hall last Friday Presented by InterCity (a community service organization dedicated to bringing together public service and technology in the inner city), these talented players presented a balanced and accessible series of string quartets, showing off their individual talents while blending their voices into a harmonious whole...