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ROBERT ECKERT Kraft Foods exec gets top job at Mattel. Perk: gets chauffeured to work in Hot Wheels limo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 29, 2000 | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...producing her current Top 10 song He Wasn't Man Enough). He describes his music as "an R.-and-B. pop classical sound." His songs typically mix deep bass grooves with bright rivers of strings. Listening to a Jerkins song is like driving through the 'hood in a limo. Even his missteps intrigue. On the new Spears CD, he produced a remake of the Rolling Stones' classic (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Instead of rocking out, the track is flowing and danceable, and Spears' vocals are disarmingly subdued. It's fascinatingly kitschy, like those Priceline.com ads with William Shatner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prince of Pleasantville | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...meet Mya at Hot 97, an influential New York City radio station, and then you head off with her into a waiting black limousine that pulls into midday traffic. The choice of interview venue--a limo--seems to indicate that Mya is getting this diva thing down, and rather well, thank you. In fact, with the release of her sweetly entertaining new CD, Fear of Flying, Mya's diva training wheels may be ready to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Portrait of the Young Diva | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...person, Mya is rather shy--she smiles at the floor of the limo a lot and speaks in a voice softer than cotton. So how did such a demure singer come to title her PG-rated album after Erica Jong's sex-charged 1973 novel? The answer is, Mya hadn't read the book until after she came up with her album name. "There are similarities between the album and the book," says Mya, "one being that you should make decisions based on how you feel, not on other things around you." If Mya really wants to continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Portrait of the Young Diva | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...Bloke is pragmatic rather than classy. One of the first things Pearce did on arriving in Los Angeles for his role in L.A. Confidential was study the bus routes. The notion of a limo was beyond him. If said Bloke does catch a taxi, he gets into the front seat with the driver. This is not practical, but the Australian Bloke fears anyone's thinking he has put on airs. This explains Crowe's odd behavior at the Oscars this year. He wasn't scowling because he was grumpy; he was just letting his mates back home know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Mad Max and Madder Maximus | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

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