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...filmmaker R.J. Cutler and two camera crews followed 14 kids at Highland Park High School in suburban Chicago, intending, he says, to make "a nonfiction My So-Called Life." A season ago, Fox would no doubt have marketed the resulting series as a teen drama. Now the catchphrase du jour is "reality TV." Trends come and trends go, but it is never a good year to sell a documentary...
Travis, Scottish sensations du jour, took to the stage first, a somewhat odd fact given that their most recent album (The Man Who) outsold the main act's. Except for their opening song (the much-overlooked 1997 single "All I Want to Do is Rock") Travis' set contained mostly songs from their recent album, with the biggest response coming for the gorgeous current single "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" Lead singer Fran Healy has the unique ability to make something trite sound like a display of pure vulnerability, and his use of speeches in between songs never came...
...winning goodwill from both other characters and readers by dint of sheer charisma (and some aid from Mark Darcy). Admittedly, those adventures include perhaps the weak point of the novel, when Bridget is framed for smuggling drugs in Thailand, which seems to be the excitement-and-terror locale du jour (see Brokedown Palace or The Beach). Out of urban London, Bridget's neuroticism seems hopelessly out of context: for all her moaning in her diary, a lot of the humor of the novel derives from the fact that her life is rather good, actually. And her performance of "Like...
Although Matt Damon's hosting Cultural Rhythms is fortunately no longer the hot protest ticket du jour, the engines of racialism that powered this sad hoopla still continue at full throttle. These attitudes are disheartening commentary on the state of our interracial relations. Working through our less than hospitable reception of Damon, then, may be an opportunity to get us back on track...
...Spyder is bored and burned-out. He needs a break. In meticulous style, the adventurer slips on an entirely black outfit. "I usually wear dark clothes specifically not to get noticed." Stepping out of the warm dorm room, Spyder makes his way over to the building du jour and proceeds to scout it out. "The problem with Harvard buildings a lot of the time is they're so Harvardy--their roofs are very sloped, often slippery when wet, and the tiles aren't secure...