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...Monty Python film Life of Brian. Other HandMade productions included the 1981 fantasy Time Bandits and the 1986 noirish drama Mona Lisa, which launched actor Bob Hoskins. Harrison's cinema dabblings also included a cameo in Idle's faux rockumentary All You Need Is Cash, about the Rutles--the "Prefab Four." According to George, the parody told the Beatles story "much better than the usual boring documentary...
...Monty Python film Life of Brian. Other HandMade productions included the 1981 fantasy Time Bandits and the 1986 noirish drama Mona Lisa, which launched actor Bob Hoskins. Harrison's cinema dabblings also included a cameo in Idle's faux rockumentary All You Need Is Cash, about the Rutles - the "Prefab Four." According to George, the parody told the Beatles story "much better than the usual boring documentary...
...American Apparel company--which opened a massive T-shirt factory in Los Angeles three years ago--"Made in the U.S.A." still makes good business sense. Says owner Dov Charney, 32: "My competitors located production centers thousands of miles from their design rooms and marketplace. It's like making prefab homes in India and trying to sell them here...
Does this mean a return to musical authenticity after years of prefab pop acts? Perhaps--at least, there's hope for bands that actually record their own music--but don't expect a return of the grunge era's rejection of rock-star pomp and artifice (or its embrace of flannel). From the spiked bracelets and studded belts of runway fashion to the recent reappearance of Motley Crue's Tommy Lee on the cover of Rolling Stone, there's a creeping nostalgia in pop culture for the old-fashioned rock-star myth in all its showboaty, leather-pantsed glory...
...within your Web browser. Just go to the site, register for a free page, and the program starts up right there in the browser window. With Homestead, my favorite of the free services, you get the choice of building a page from scratch or choosing from a menu of prefab styles and templates. Personally I found their styles a little tacky ("Pastel Waves"? Please), but Homestead does have some cool features. You can add a free news feed to your site, for example, or a chat room, just by pointing and clicking...