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...just might by summer. If there's one thing reality TV has confirmed, it's that people will do almost anything for 15 minutes of shame. Fuller, 42, a British entertainment entrepreneur, exploits this as well as anyone. He's the creator of Britain's Pop Idol, its offshoot American Idol in the U.S. (also a hit) and the current Germany Seeks the Superstar, which drew almost 7 million viewers to its most recent episode and gives up nothing in schmaltz to the U.S. version. A recording of the show's 10 finalists singing a tune called We Have...
...confection known as the Spice Girls. In 1999 he launched the TV band S Club 7 (renamed S Club after a member left), a collection of British twentysomethings who have belted out 10 Top 10 pop hits in Britain and made four TV series. Next came a youth offshoot, S Club Juniors. Naturally, Fuller is planning to create the American Juniors--or the AJs--five U.S. kids ages 8 to 14 whom he will find, groom and turn into a band. The concept might be launched with a song-filled movie about kids at a performing-arts academy--"a cross...
...using his position to deliver extremist rhetoric. The Charity Commission says he must answer complaints this week about "extreme and political" statements. French impatience with Britain comes from the country's long experience of the brutal terrorism of Algerian organizations like the Armed Islamic Group (G.I.A.) and its offshoot, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (G.S.P.C.). The G.S.P.C.'s gory combat videos, full of throat slitting, are on sale at radical mosques. Both groups were founded after 1992 elections were canceled by Algeria's military when it became obvious that a fundamentalist Islamic party would win. Osama bin Laden...
...cute guy at the office, the best place to start has long been Google, the world's coolest search engine. But online shopping? Fuhgeddaboutit. Google had no way to distinguish websites that sold, say, CD players from those that simply wrote about them. Enter Froogle (at froogle.com) a Google offshoot devoted to shopping searches. Froogle weds the technologies that made Google great (ranking websites in order of usefulness, loading in a split second) with continually updated information from thousands of Web merchants. You can enter a price range and get pictures of products before clicking on the links. Best...
...though The Street’s rambling, resplendently-accented “spitting” will probably alternately mystify and delight American listeners who may have no idea what precisely a “geezer” is, it is only half the attraction. Garage music, an offshoot of techno and trance, has always seemed like a half-formed genre, a minor detour in a genre best-listened to on a crowded, chemically-enhanced dancefloor. Original Pirate Material demonstrates conclusively why this is no longer the case. In the awakening world of British hip hop, The Streets...