Word: disco
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Strange Tentfellows Muammar Gaddafi was the Saddam Hussein of his day; America's Public Enemy No. 1. Ronald Reagan sent jets to bomb his compound in 1986 after Libyan agents blew up a Berlin disco popular with U.S. soldiers. Gaddafi's regime sold arms to the I.R.A., brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, killed an unarmed policewoman with a blast of machine gun fire from its London embassy, and still supports Robert Mugabe's despotism in Zimbabwe. So seeing Tony Blair shake Gaddafi's hand last week in a ceremonial tent near Tripoli was a head-snapping...
...seconds you could mistake Franz Ferdinand for the Strokes. Take Me Out, from the group's March 9 self-titled debut, opens with a standard modern-rock guitar riff and studiously disinterested vocals from singer Alex Kapranos. Then the pace shifts, the guitar goes punk, the rhythm section goes disco, and Kapranos goes nuts. He's singing about how he would rather be shot than live without his girl, but Kapranos doesn't get overwrought. He doesn't really sing either--he swings, like Dean Martin on uppers...
...ever get beyond the disco thrash, you'll discover that the lyrics are frequently quite clever. Jacqueline is about an older man realizing that a younger girl is out of bounds, Michael is a sad bit of homoeroticism, and Tell Her Tonight gets at the fumbling language of infatuation ("Only watched her walk but she so is/Only heard her talk but she so is"). Franz Ferdinand isn't out to make poetry; these musicians are out to make you move your feet, and their giddy soul is revealed in every trick they use to get the job done. Pace shifts...
...Huggy Bear (aptly played by Hip-Hop and rap star Snoop Dogg), Starsky and Hutch go to all lengths—ludicrous disguises aplenty—to catch the crook. In the process the police partners develop their distinctively lasting dynamic, an enduring icon of 1970’s disco era television. “The basis of show was their chemistry,” Stiller explains, “and that’s what we were trying to recreate...
Also in keeping with the spirit of the ’70’s, at one point Starsky engages in a disco dance-off, perhaps perpetuating the trend that started with the infamous Zoolander walk-off scene. “It was just coincidence,” says Stiller. “Just those last...