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...concept album: the CD plays a cartoon on your computer. Well, forget the 'toon and listen to the tunes, for this is the most imaginative pop record of the year. Nakamura's beats are wonderfully atmospheric and danceable; Del Tha Funky Homosapien's playful rhymes are the perfect foil to Albarn's ennui-filled vocals, and Weymouth's giant bass whomps away throughout...
...bustling open-air nighttime eateries on either corner of Soi Phadungdao (a.k.a. Soi Texas) at Yaowaraj in Chinatown, he recommends Rut & Luk on the northwest corner for its "aggressively seasoned" sauce. The restaurant's specialties include tiny mollusks grilled in their shells and whole fish baked in foil with black pepper and garlic. Those looking for something similarly substantial during the day should follow the lunchtime crowds to the nondescript Som Tam Polo restaurant, on the left side of Soi Polo en route to the Royal Bangkok Polo Club. Aficionados come for the fried chicken smothered in crispy, fried garlic...
...Just because this film's hero is part of the new generation of action hero - sensitive, bland, little more than a foil for the special effects - doesn?t mean this is a good thing. Granted, there?s only one Chuck Heston, and although I stick by my regret that we will never see the next best thing, a frantically bug-eyed Arnold Schwarzenegger screaming at apes in his inimitable Viennese howl, you knew you were going to sacrifice something in the way of charisma this time around...
...Lemmon the successful and award-winning actor made alpha male in 1962's alcoholic drama "Days of Wine and Roses," and the performance, opposite Lee Remick as his led-down-the-drain wife, is legendary. But the man was a born foil, whose career spiked in two collaborations. One was with Billy Wilder, who directed Lemmon in "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment," two of the best films of the century thanks in no small part to Lemmon, and after that, "Irma La Douce," "The Fortune Cookie," "Avanti!" "The Front Page" and "Buddy Buddy...
...Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who plays foil to House Government Reform Committee Chairman and Clinton Administration Inquisitor Dan Burton, R- Ind., has asked Burton several times if he'll spearhead an investigation into alleged Republican wrongdoing - specifically, the situation of senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, who met March 12 with Intel's chief executive and two of its lobbyists even as he still held more than $100,000 in company stock. Rove has denied any impropriety, with White House officials saying that the conversation was about how the company could support the president's policies, not about a pending...