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Here's a small comfort in the era of prime-time segregation: a show that proves black and white actors can make mediocre yuppie-relationship comedies together, just as they can separately. Jaleel White (formerly Family Matters' Steve Urkel) and buddies are--like much of the demo-targeted population of sitcom America--adjusting to postcollegiate life as urbane young men and women, though the only real evidence of this is that they drink wine, smoke cigars and talk on cell phones. Their gay-and-lesbian-obsessed sex banter is still firmly stuck in high school...
...palette by studying the blues recordings of Etta James and B.B. King. Now Aguilera blends the whoops, swoops and clean lines of a pure voice like Whitney Houston's with the darker, more earthy tones of the blues, giving her singing a sturdy backbone. RCA Records heard her demo tape, brought her in to sing a cappella and signed her up. The upcoming CD shows off her range. Come On Over is a gospel-tinged R.-and-B. rouser that gives her a chance to shout; So Emotional is a Brandy-style midtempo ballad that she patiently builds...
What's great about Picture CD is the terrifically easy-to-use software for editing your photos that comes with it. Cropping, improving the contrast, removing red eye and even sending your images via e-mail are so simple that instructions are unnecessary. Also cool: each disc includes free demo programs (they will change every 60 days) that allow you to have fun with your photos. One made it simple to swap heads, for instance. Another popped in cartoon characters...
...Nava, director of the 1997 biopic Selena, cast Jennifer Lopez in the lead. The finished film used Selena's real voice for the musical sequences, but, Nava says, Lopez would sing through her scenes during the filming. The experience inspired Lopez to launch a singing career. "I did a demo in Spanish after Selena and submitted it to the Work label," says Lopez. "They said, 'We like it, but we want you to do it in English.'" So she did. Her album, On the 6, is due out June...
...chases and gunplay don't work as well as the character comedy does. The movie has so many different set pieces that it sometimes looks like Liman's demo reel. And all right, you've seen these elements before--but rarely so engagingly assembled. With its three-part structure framing a story of drugs and smart talk, but also with a heart so understanding that it lets nobody die, Go is a prime example of Tarantino cute: pup fiction...