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...Making the Band, which showed boy-band architect Lou Pearlman holding auditions and casting O-Town from scratch. The team behind MTV's The Real World captured the group's production, primping, packaging--and, of course, fights with girlfriends. A year, several MTV Total Request Live appearances and a platinum album later, the boys are belting out Liquid Dreams (an almost parodic number about autoerotic fantasies starring celebrities), putting touching sincerity into lines like, "And Salma Hayek brings...
...where the skiing is not great, the food is overpriced and the capital city is a windswept collection of multicolored concrete boxes, and turn it into one of the world's hottest winter vacation spots. How does Iceland do it? By touting its reputation for swinging nightclubs packed with platinum-haired babes and hearty Nordic men, its unspoiled natural wonders and, not least, the low-priced winter deals offered by Icelandair, which enjoys a monopoly on air service to the 40,000-sq.-mi. North Atlantic island. Off-season round trips from the U.S. to Reykjavik...
...with the same you-can't-stop-me air Allen Iverson has when he steps onto a basketball court. She's dressed way past the nines--she's hovering around the elevens--in purple boots, purple Anna Sui leather pants and a black mink coat. Her hair, once platinum blond, is arranged in cornrows dyed a shade of red that almost makes the braids appear to glow, like space-heater coils. Eve does an on-air interview hyping her new CD, Scorpion (Ruff Ryders/Interscope), and then records a few attitude-filled promos. "Who's that girl?" Eve asks...
...debut, Naveed, was met with immediate commercial and critical success north of the border, and established the band's status as the pride and joy of the Canadian alt-rock scene. OLP's 1997 effort, Clumsy, avoided the dreaded second album jinx and, in addition to its quadruple-platinum status in Canada, led to the band's breakthrough in the U.S. with the catchy, angst-ridden singles "Clumsy" and "Superman's Dead." The band's muscular, guitar-driven melodies and their reputation for solid live performances won them rave reviews, and the album was certified gold in the States less...
...beginning of January, 850,000 copies of the album had been shipped in America. That's on top of the 1.5 million the album has sold in Britain and Continental Europe. In Ireland, on the strength of almost no promotional hype, White Ladder has been certified platinum 14 times over. "I don't know if there's anyone there left to buy it," Gray jokes...