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Unlike the Britney and Mandy movies, Aaliyah's fits into the prevailing guy mode: a threnody of "sex, blood and rock 'n' roll," in the words of its lead vampire, Lestat. (Director Michael Rymer's film is based on an Anne Rice novel.) While Lestat, played with a handsomely snaky androgyny by Stuart Townsend, wows the kids with his rock-star act, the ancient Queen Akasha waits to be roused from her slumber. Waits for most of the movie: Akasha-Aaliyah doesn't show up until the last third, by which time she has received a bigger buildup than...
...itinerant and compulsive dialers. Likewise it should not be surprising that The Cell-Phone Family Show, when it airs this spring, will be sponsored by NTT DoCoMo. After all, the Japanese wireless communications company embedded cell phones deeply into local culture when it launched its phenomenally successful i-mode mobile Internet service, now used by some 30 million Japanese. I-mode's success turned DoCoMo into a global telecommunications role model, a ringing example of how to hook customers on a new technology and turn a fat profit as well...
...most telling example of DoCoMo's woes is its inability so far to build on the success of i-mode?certainly a tough act to follow. When it debuted in 1999, i-mode was the world's first network linking mobile-phone users to the Internet. Japanese consumers loved the simple-to-use service and quickly adopted it for diversions such as online gaming, wireless e-commerce and displaying Hello Kitty on their color screens. Unlike clumsy WAP services offered elsewhere in the world, DoCoMo's proprietary system was a smash, registering 120% growth in new subscribers over the half...
...After this smooth opening, Frankie switched instruments and tempos, kicking into sizzling Latin mode with a cut from his new album A.S., dedicated to Arturo Sandoval. Here the rhythm section began to show its chops. The percussionists (drum and conga players) performed a rocking and driving solo that got the previously staid audience vibrating in their seats. The pianist—playing on a Yamaha with a sound as bright as its polished finish—thumped out a series of chromatic arpeggios that got the audience pumping. But the peak was naturally Frankie’s sharp and tuneful...
Considering the low-profile release of his debut album, Richard Morel has surprisingly hefty credentials. A former engineer for U.S. house auteurs Deep Dish, he’s gone on to remix the likes of Depeche Mode and New Order. Queen of the Highway, then, is intended as his claim to fame, or at least musical autonomy. Apparently designed to showcase the breadth of his abilities, it sets mid-tempo guitar numbers and downtempo head-nodders next to the progressive house for which he’s best known...