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...year-old Singaporean, Mei Wong has come far since she recorded her first melody on a cassette tape at age 7. Nowadays, she uses a MacBook Pro, a digital sound box, a set of toy xylophones and her voice to produce her own brand of futuristic electro-pop, and takes her low-key show - it often just involves her, a laptop and a microphone - to venues such as New York's Knitting Factory and Paris' avant-garde Cirque Electrique. Last summer, she played her first Tokyo show at Cafe Pause, seated at a far table, indistinguishable from the customers...
...night at another club, the Velvet Room, typically sees the line out front dominated by black people, while the DJs inside spin hip-hop, reggae and R&B. The following night finds the same trendy venue packed with whites and some Asians, dancing to a blend of hip-hop, pop and techno...
Huckabee's greatest pop-culture weapon, though, may be the late-night shows. His humor is easy, wry and self-deprecating, but it's also strategic. Some Huckabee positions?on abortion, the so-called FairTax, immigration, aligning the Constitution with "God's standards"?would alienate some voters. But his joking reinforces his cultivated image as the conservative who's "not mad at anybody." And his dry irony?the lingua franca of pop culture?allows him to sandwich actual answers on awkward issues with his jokes. If he's lucky, viewers won't notice, or mind, the difference...
When did you notice that your films had become a pop-culture phenomenon-like "That's such Woody Allen dialogue."? -Brian O'Keeffe, SeattleI've been making films since 1967, and I've never felt I've influenced anybody in any way. People make films like Scorsese makes them, like Spielberg makes them, like Stanley Kubrick made them. I never see young people that I've influenced either as a personality or as a filmmaker...
...will come out this fall or next spring, and he's working on a "novel that's going to be very long. I'll be killing a lot of trees if it gets done." Still, he's pretty clear-eyed about his new life. "I think [Florida is] where pop novelists go to die, in a way," he says. "It does feel a little like retirement now, but why not? I'm 60 now, so I can kick back a little bit. Sixty's the new 50, and dead is the new alive...