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...vocal sample "Right about now, the funk soul brother. Check it out now, the funk soul brother," which Fatboy links directly into the opening measures. "The Rockafeller Skank" was released as a single in March, and served as the catalyst of the artist's recent mainstream popularity. The addictive Lord Finesse vocal sample and the twangy surf guitar augment the elastic beat and funky bass line to make it one of the best dance songs of the year. This track is Fatboy Slim at his best, as he manages to create a continuity of euphony that is unpredictable, despite...
...himself the visionary target of "rebranding" Britain. Instead of enjoying this country of nice old things, he wants to create a new "cool Britannia." Little surprise, then, that his passion for the modern has spread upward from Britain's House of Commons into the 700-year-old House of Lords. Under plans unveiled last week by Baroness Jay, the Labour government's leader of the Lords, Britain's 700 hereditary peers are about to get the chop. Twenty-one generations of Lord Fauntleroys influencing the affairs of the nation will come to an end. They will continue to have...
Such a deeply unmodern institution must be top of the list for Blair's reforming zeal. But however much one may agree with him, one must surely admit that the Lords provide a venerable spectacle, full of idiosyncratic character. The sight of the Lord Chancellor in all his forbidding finery, slumped on the woolsack adjusting his wig, listening intently to the sound of sweet and reasoned discourse (mixed with the occasional grunt and snore) is civilized, faintly amusing and surprisingly effective in terms of its legislative product...
...LORD JEFFREY ARCHER is a novelist and Conservative Party politician; he is also a likely candidate for mayor of London...
...hour of 35-mm film stock and processing); easy credit. Estimates of the total number of independent films that will be made this year range upwards of 1,100. "And that's only completed films," says Jeff Lipsky, an executive at Samuel Goldwyn Films. "Lord knows how many more at least start production." By Lipsky's count, maybe 150 to 170 will see the light of day with some form of distribution, however limited; of those, maybe 20 will get significant exposure and make some money. After all, there are only so many theaters, so many moviegoers, so many hours...