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From the original boy band, the Jackson Five, through to the cultural Zeitgeist of the New Kids on the Block and the mind-warping musical contributions of Kriss Kross and Hanson, pop has been graced by a singularly impressive array of prepubescent has-beens. Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears have also warbled and shimmied their respective ways into brazen, busty music icons. However, after a summer dominated by the multi-diva scream-fest “Lady Marmalade” from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, bubblegum pop seems to have momentarily burst. From its ashes, a new breed of artists...
...nation rallied around that line. TIME surveyed Australia's best and brightest and none volunteered to stand up to the feisty Malaysian. Tart-tongued former Prime Minister Paul Keating, who publicly clashed with Mahathir in the '90s, refused to comment, as did Aussie icon Paul Hogan, nationalist politician Pauline Hanson, Wolverine Hugh Jackman, Guy Pearce, Cate Blanchett, Elle MacPherson and Kiwi Gladiator Russell Crowe, who grew up down under. Publicists begged off for Nicole Kidman ("She's up to her eyeballs in a film right now") and Australia-raised Mel Gibson ("He's filming intensively"). So did James Murdoch...
...Guano ("if that is indeed your name") suspects Group Captain Mandrake of committing "preversions" in a phone booth. The other title invariably connected with Southern's name, "Easy Rider," demonstrates his mastery at delineating characters through dialogue - as in the memorable campfire scene where "straight" lawyer George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), conveys his admiration for Capt America and Billy but predicts that their liberated lifestyle is doomed...
...they are coming back. Andy Pesky, president of the premium travel agency ProTravel-The Zenith Group, calls them "the hottest thing out there." While many mid-20th century middle-class folk might have felt uncomfortable in such swanky settings, today, observes Bjorn Hanson of PricewaterhouseCoopers, "everyone has moved up in economic status in their own mind, so everyone feels entitled--even feels that a luxury vacation is a birthright...
Today's grande-dame guests prefer to pamper themselves in these inimitable settings more often but for shorter periods. More and more companies are also choosing them for corporate meetings. Guests know, says Hanson, "they will not have to worry about anything or have to negotiate anything...