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...corpses, dinosaurs and extraterrestrials, but low on heart. Summer in America. Turn on the TV and watch your tobacco-chawing interleague baseball games; lay down your $49.95 and catch a championship-boxing match complete with an outrageous ear-chewing incident. Summer in America. Also a season for music: strutting macho megatours; draining weekend-long rock festivals; sweaty dance clubs throbbing with testosterone-filled techno. Dial up Ticketmaster; go to an outdoor alternative-rock show in a field, in a stadium; see the teeming, churning mosh pits, the muscular bare-chested frat boys, the sharp, scabbed elbows, the clomping Reeboked feet...
...singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan has masterminded the summer's most talked-about musical event: Lilith Fair, a traveling show featuring a rotating lineup of 61 female singer-songwriters, including Cassandra Wilson, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple, Paula Cole, Jewel and McLachlan herself. There's a different melody in the air: macho is out; empathy is in. "People want to be given hope," says Atlantic Records senior vice president Ron Shapiro, "and these female artists are giving young people a life preserver...
...knows it, I think." To a denizen of the Other Beltway, this is like not knowing your own phone number. (And the tired Washington posture of "I'm such a busy big shot that my secretary runs my life" is also foreign to the Other Beltway, where the preferred macho posture is "I've got my whole life right here on a computer so tiny it fits up one of my nostrils...
...thriller about a mutiny of convicted murderers aboard a transport plane, Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a bad-luck good guy on his way home from serving eight years in San Quentin on a bum rap. Cage's body is buffed enough for a macho role, but the Academy Award-winning actor seems a stretch as an action star. With his stubbly beard and stringy hair, he looks like either Jesus with a grudge or the guy who stares at kids from the other side of a schoolyard fence. Then, an hour into the film, Poe finds a villain rifling...
Despite pleading his innocence, Markhasev does not expect to be acquitted. In detention he is tough and macho, making statements to the sheriff's deputies that come very close to self-incrimination, according to internal case memos. Prosecutors, in fact, are considering calling some of the deputies to testify. Kavinoky says Markhasev is "very candid, very straightforward." His world view, though, has been practically Dostoevskian ever since he turned 15 and learned a secret about his father that the family won't discuss. The hard-working student with good grades was transformed overnight. Now, says Kavinoky, "he sees that...