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...pain PRINCE CHARLES appears to be experiencing is derived from listening to himself deejay or from the knowledge that this photo probably won't make him a huge hit with the ladies. The unlikely event occurred as Charles was touring a new south London youth shelter. Spotting a mixing deck and turntables, he said, "Oh, you've got a disco here." Soon the Prince of Wales was behind the wheels of steel, and with the aid of two rhythmic young urchins he set about mixing I Don't Smoke the Reefer by DJ Dee Kline and Little...
...Easy Living," with Jean Arthur, Ray Milland and Edward Arnold. Magnificent Depression fantasy that begins with a rich banker sailing his wife's sable coat off the penthouse roof. It lands on Jean Arthur as she rides to work on the upper deck of a New York bus. If the movie were made in modern times, it would be.... "Pretty Woman," wherein, with our fatal literal-mindedness, we turned the poor girl in the Cinderella story into a prostitute. She was Julia Roberts, it is true, but a prostitute all the same...
...Martin's journey began at home in the Stockholm suburbs. His father was a policeman, his mother a teacher. His older brother introduced him to music. "He brought home old Kiss cassettes," Martin says, and with glam-rock blasting from the tape deck and Gene Simmons staring from the bedroom wall, the rock star bug bit hard. Martin soon started music lessons. He's still not sure why he picked French horn, hardly an obvious choice for an aspiring rocker "I guess it looked cool," he says. Far cooler was the school's music room, where he taught himself...
...cellist himself, Jaakko Salovaara listened to Bach from birth, with some Twisted Sister and AC/DC thrown in. But when he heard acid house on a trip to London in '89, he was converted. He negotiated his teens with one hand on a bow and the other on a mixing deck. But the pulse of the club beat was stronger than the conductor's baton, and at 20 he launched a solo career as the dance artist JS16...
...been concentrating on a rapid surfacing drill, and the demands of entertaining the civilians apparently threw the submarine's rigid procedural schedule dangerously off-target. There were also mechanical problems from the outset; Griffiths reports that a screen meant to display sonar readings to the commander and others on deck was not working, but when officers discovered the malfunction, they decided to put off repairs until returning to port...