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...want to be an overnight sensation in classical music these days, you'd best look the part. You can be moodily romantic like long-haired Argentinian guitarist Dominic Miller (signed up by BBC Worldwide to launch their Inversion label), sulkily sexy like the all-girl string quartet Bond (2 million albums sold and counting). Skittishly sexy is also fine, a la Myleene Klass, the English Popstars siren turned classical pianist (also signed by Universal, reportedly for €1.4 million-plus). Smoldering sulkiness is equally bankable, as bad-boy Croatian pianist Maksim is finding out (EMI has signed him for five...
...this new generation already endangered? As the Beats spawned the beatniks--beret-wearing urbanites who hung out in coffee shops--the hipsters too have their imitators. "There's definitely the hipsters, and then there's the gypsters," jokes Blake Miller, 33, the lead singer of Moving Units, a punk-inspired Silver Lake band. "There's people who figured out they just need to go to a thrift store and buy a tattered blazer and cut one side of their hair shorter than the other. And that's unfortunate because that usually is the first sign of a scene getting ready...
...Mitch Silpa on Carol Burnett's Tarzan yell: "Her Tarzan yell was great.") But you could argue, say, that the mainstream success of Cheech and Chong's drug comedy Up in Smoke, which VH1 lauds but IFC ignores, says more about the '70s' anything-goes Zeitgeist than McCabe & Mrs. Miller...
...Pekar: I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were like virgin territory. There was so much to be done. It exited me. I couldn't draw very well. I could write scripts and storyboard style using stick figures and balloons and captions. So I decided I would do that and see if I could maybe come up with an artist. And I was paying attention to what the underground cartoonists were doing in the sixties and the early seventies. Crumb moved out of Cleveland...
...there are plenty of buyers. The U.K.'s Scottish & Newcastle will soon have up to €3.25 billion to spend after selling off nearly 1,500 of its pubs later this year, and a year ago, South African Breweries (SAB) bought America's Miller Brewing Company to create SABMiller - now the world's second-largest brewer, and a company hungry for European expansion. That may have awakened Anheuser-Busch - No. 1 in the world, which has fat profit margins in the U.S., where it gets more than 80% of its sales. At one time, the company had ruled out European...