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There's a sweet dizziness to Cantopop fandom that's reminiscent of the innocent bobby-sox frenzy of the Sinatra years. At Lau concerts, his fans hold up flash cards that spell out his name in English; a group of votaries rented a minibus and trailed him from one Taiwan concert to the next. (In return, each year around his birthday, Lau attends parties thrown by his fan clubs.) If fans don't stalk the stars, the insatiable paparazzi do. "They follow me everywhere," says Leslie Cheung. "I don't even put my litter outside the house anymore. People...
...young women. This is the first women's sport in the U.S. to become more popular than its male counterpart that doesn't involve doing pretty leaps on a mat or an ice rink. It's far better to be filled with arrogance and aloofness and tension than to flash a saccharine Dorothy Hamill smile. If people turn to sports for real-time Aristotelian catharsis, then perhaps the women's tour--with its grudges and crying and accusations of racism, sexism and homophobia--is the most interesting drama of all. We've had decades of hypotheticals about whether, if women...
...also paraded his protean vocal talents on the drama-tized news show "The March of Time." (TIME magazine, which produced the program, put Welles on its cover the week of his 23rd birthday, predicting he would be no "flash in the Pantheon." The year before, Clare Boothe, soon to marry TIME?s boss Henry Luce, had put up crucial backing for the Mercury?s production of "Julius Caesar.") The story goes that he was hired when the series was airing a piece on the newly-born Dionne quintuplets - Welles played all five babies. He impersonated kings and plutocrats...
...subcultural. The cheerleader listened to pop, the wannabe-street kid listened to rap, the aspiring Sundance auteur with the sideways haircut listened to punk. When the genres did mix, like on the soundtrack for the forgettable 1993 thriller Judgment Night, it was with breathless pomp and circumstance (News flash: Pearl Jam rockin' and Cypress Hill rappin' on the same track! Very likely kicking back and sharing a doobie!). Now, not only is there nothing remarkable about a band that stirs rock, rap and pop into the same song; the kids, if the movies are to be believed, no longer carve...
...board his yacht, the Marlin, pushing off from the family dock in Hyannis Port, Massachussets, preparing for a well-deserved cruise with family and friends and a couple of bowls of fish chowder, his favorite dish. A military duty officer rushed down to the beach with the first flash. He walked into the surf in full uniform to deliver the grim news to Brig. Gen. Chester Clifton, the Presidents military aide who signaled the Marlin back to port. He handed the dispatch to Kennedy who read it in silence. "You go ahead," Kennedy told the family as he got into...