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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Russell Crowe jokes, including an indelicate one about the Crowe kidnap story. (When it comes to tabloids, I read only the headlines. So help me: just whom was Crowe accused of kidnaping?) The famous bad boy from Down Under did his usual Oscar act, glowering and chewing gum. But as the Best Actor winner, he gave a gracious, charming and articulate thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crouching Traffic, Hidden Winner | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...ahead," leaving plenty of room for speculation about what really doomed the hit factory. Martin's music has reportedly made him a multimillionaire (he refuses to discuss his wealth). Maybe a clash of egos caused the rift. Or maybe Martin had chewed and spit out all the bubble-gum pop he had in him. Fiction, he says, but typically he didn't quash the talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top of the Pops | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...strobe lights flicker and the bass throbs at this Shanghai nightclub, all eyes are on her. Fifi's eyes search the crowd, too, wandering up and down men's bodies, looking for the perfect one. But right now, Fifi is dissatisfied with what she sees. She pouts her bubble-gum pink lips and frowns. "There's nobody here tonight," she says. "Nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...hopes those eyes are still on her. If they are, she starts grinding her hips again, faster and faster until she's moving quicker than the boom-boom-boom of the electronic drums. If he's stopped looking, she sways to a stop. And pouts those bubble-gum pink lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...last spring, and from there Gray rode a wave of trans-Continental buzz. He is part of a generation of gifted young singer-songwriters-it also includes such acts as Elliott Smith, Badly Drawn Boy and Beth Orton-who have thrived by providing an alternative to the numbing, bubble-gum conformity of pop, and the hard, forbidding edge of rap and metal. "The people who have bought the record are people who haven't participated in a long time," Gray says, explaining White Ladder's appeal. "It's got melody and a strong spirit. I'm quite the opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Shades of David Gray | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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