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...from the career imprisonment that confined their parents. They are flocking to technology start-ups, founding small businesses and even taking up causes--all in their own way. They are making waves on the Web, making movies in and out of Hollywood, making money, spending money. Slapped with the label Generation X, they've turned the tag into a badge of honor. They are X-citing, X-igent, X-pansive. They're the next big thing. Boomers, beware! It's payback time...
...This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label that stuck was from Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X, a tale of languid youths musing over "mental ground zero--the location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb: frequently a shopping mall...
...questions about Bruckheimer's ability to do it himself. Last year's The Rock, which he produced without Simpson's help, earned a burly $134 million at home and $196 million more abroad. Con Air, which could equal that take, wears the Jerry Bruckheimer Films label, but it has all the S. and B. accoutrements: a director bred on Madison Avenue, a Lego-assembly plot about escaping from a confined space, a lot of chatty male attitude, a dogged belief that car crashes and gay men are hilarious, and the near invisibility of women. After a sneak preview, Disney boss...
Unfortunately, on their sophomore CD, The Colour and the Shape (Roswell/ Capitol), Foo Fighters never breaks out of the label "promising," which starts to sound more like a burden than a compliment the second time around. The songs on the new album dwell mainly on how relationships fall apart, a subject that's been dealt with in pop songs ever since pop songs began, and Foo Fighters fails to contribute any new insights. On one song, Up in Arms, Grohl actually sings, "I cannot forget you, girl." It's hard to believe he can offer up a toothless lyric like...
Jones was rescued from his plight by friend and Mercury Records producer Irvin Green, who hired him as Director of Artists and Repertoire in 1961. Three years later, Jones became a vice president, becoming the first black to assume an executive position on a major record label...