Word: hipster
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...artsy Fringe Club in the trendy Central district, Fai has barely sat down with his bottle of Tsingtao, when a bright-eyed girl dances up to him out of the jazz-band din. The hipster aura is already working, but Fai plays it cool. He smiles his big, gummy smile and lets the girl sway back into the jiggling crowd. He turns to the table of men and toasts, "kau lui!" He puts down his bottle and takes the dance floor. But the prey has moved on. Fai has misjudged, and now she's dancing with another, quicker Lothario...
...Rafelson, a jack-of-all trades hipster at Hollywood's fringes, and his partner Bert Schneider, decided to assemble a made-to-order rock 'n' roll band to star in a TV show. Rafelson claims he'd thought of it before "A Hard Day's Night," but whatever the case, the success of the Beatles movie, with the ur-rock video montage of "Can't Buy Me Love," greased the skids in a big way. Rafelson found himself deluged with applicants for the band, turning away the likes of Steven Stills before settling on the four lads who would succeed...
...scripted by Carroll Carroll. The writer shaped and sharpened (that is to say, softened) Crosby's public personality, as other scripters would do in the films. Giddins says Carroll allowed "Bing to be Bing, only more so." He added flourishes to Crosby's facility for mixing sesquipedalian phraseology with hipster slang. One tangy aside was apparently not written by Carroll. After a solo by one-armed trumpeter Wingy Malone, Bing quipped, "Man, that was dirtier than a Russian horse-doctor's valise...
Bing Crosby--a hipster? Sure, he may have cut more No. 1 singles than the Beatles, but was the smoothly affable elder statesman of Eisenhower-era middle-brow pop ever really...cool? You bet. In Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years, 1903-1940 (Little, Brown; 728 pages; $30), critic Gary Giddins takes a fresh and compelling look at the forgotten first half of Crosby's long career, turning the clock back to the Roaring Twenties to show how Crosby started out as a hard-drinking, hard-swinging jazzman whose nonchalant way with a song was universally regarded...
...could do worse than pay a visit to Bluelight.com based in San Francisco. Incongruities abound. Here we are at a converted warehouse (major points for geek chic), but it's in the heart of Fisherman's Wharf, Middle America's greatest open-air tourist trap, miles from the hipster hangouts. Inside are all the signs of an unstuffy start-up--pets roaming the halls, people with green hair. Yet what gets them really jazzed is flipping the switch that signals a virtual blue-light special...