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...been a body in the trunk or a pack of hounds on his trail or 16 years on the lam. He looked healthy, untroubled, his face ruddy. He played with a silver goatee and casually acknowledged Flodin, who smiled from the back of the courtroom, wearing a bright layered getup that looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech, but it must have been 16 years of writer's block. Painting himself large and important, vintage Ira, he dropped such names as Alvin...
Indeed, it was just such a getup--the infamously skimpy outfit Britney wore at last September's MTV Video Music Awards--that confirmed the star's transformation from perky ingenue to pop tart. In 1999, Britney was a former Mouseketeer with a No. 1 album, ...Baby, One More Time. By the time she released her second album last spring, Oops!...I Did It Again, she had grown up, gaining breasts (by what means remains unclear) and losing all inhibition. Britney, 19, who was just co-host at the American Music Awards, is scheduled to start shooting a movie in March...
...been rolled there like dice. "I'm gonna put a wooden walkway of some kind in here," he says, dodging a vine. Bush can look as if he's clanging around in a blue suit, but he doesn't look lost on the ranch in the Marlboro Man getup: worn black jeans, a blue work shirt and a mustard-colored barn jacket with stains and a corduroy collar. The breast reads: GEORGE W. BUSH, GOVERNOR...
...hormone-charged manifesto: "These are the years that you're supposed to go [bleep] wildHave unprotected sex! Go do drugs! Smoke cigarettes! Drink alcohol! Watch porno! Rent porno movies! Get porno magazines! Porno, porno, porno!" With his close-cropped blond hair, foul language (bleeped for TV) and suburban-homey getup, he's one of the million angry wannabe boys that Eminem pegs in The Real Slim Shady, "Who cuss like me/ Who just don't give a f___ like me/Who dress like me/Walk, talk and act like...
Jones, who lives in the high desert northeast of town, goes into that closet a mild-mannered secretary and comes out Krazy K.C., Wild Man from the Desert Sand, with a ponytail, Gestapo boots, combat fatigues and Harley suspenders. And why this particular getup? "You go with what you know," he says...