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...Last Nite.” The recent release of Mick Jagger’s album Goddess in the Doorway and the re-release of “My Sweet Lord” following George Harrison’s death have recalled images of British rock and roll in its heyday and at the same time served as reminders of just how far British rock has come since its golden...
...Napster's heyday, pirated TV shows were a rarity on the Net. But that changed with the advent of broadband home connections, $40 TV tuner cards that snap into your PC and cheap ways to store data. Looking for episodes of Friends? The MPAA counted more than 5,000 locations on the Internet last year where people could download episodes for free. Using custom software to track copyright violations, it also found 4,000 sites for The Simpsons and 2,000 for The Sopranos. Big Pussy is not going to like that...
...crop of action stars has taken over, among them Brendan Fraser, Jackie Chan and Keanu Reeves, virtual unknowns in Arnold’s heyday. They hold the cards now, they draw the crowds and pack the theaters, while The 6th Day plays to empty seats and bittersweet memories. Faced with extinction, what’s an old warhorse...
...their heyday, Einstürzende Neubauten (whose name translates literally to “collapsing new buildings”) were amongst the pioneers of industrial music. Their sound was a chaotic brew of growled vocals, droning noise and their trademark: loud, clanging percussion made by banging power tools against metal (among other techniques). Twenty years later, the scene is but a faint memory and the band’s lineup has been halved, but their experiments in rhythm and texture continue...
That dual appeal is a sign of a welcome change in animation. Cartoons have bridged kids' and adult entertainment since the heyday of Walt Disney and Chuck Jones, but the field went through a long creative slump in the '70s and '80s, as programmers churned out Saturday-morning knock-offs made mainly to shill toys (My Little Pony) or repurpose sitcom characters (The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang). Today cartoons have undergone a renaissance, as kids' channels such as Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have given their animators the freedom of auteurs. Smarter and more idiosyncratic, these animators have created...