Word: resistance
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...group's new CD from both alternative rock and avant-garde hip-hop, creating a sound that is sharp and soulful. The band also tosses reggae and ska (a faster, jerkier reggae precursor) into the sonic mix, resulting in songs that are hard to categorize and harder still to resist. While much of today's pop wallows in recycled schlock rock from the '70s (Kiss) and rehashed alternative rock from last week (just turn on the radio), Sublime offers up a sound that is fresh and potent...
...difficult to resist comparison with the book, it's also a challenge not to remember another recent attempt at putting "Emma" on the big screen: "Clueless," resplendent with Beverly Hills bird-brains. Some logic might dictate that "Clueless" changes the locale and pace of the novel so radically--Emma would say "Whatever" only if followed by a four-line sentence sprinkled with semi-colons--that it couldn't possibly be a more loyal version. But where "Clueless" successfully looked to a new world ripe for the axing, McGrath's "Emma" creates an uncomfortable mix by updating an old world with...
...really want to appeal to women, how about some discussion of the anorexia the baby gymnasts obviously suffer from--or the fact that the females are mostly teenagers while the male gymnasts are in their mid-20s? Resist overcovering women's beach volleyball, which is no better than the swimsuit competition at the Miss America pageant. And don't labor to make heroes of the nonheroic. Airbrushing swimmer Gary Hall Jr., the spoiled grandson of savings and loan cheat Charles Keating Jr., by not mentioning that he was a major goof-off, blowing up mailboxes and tearing up golf courses...
Schumacher's timing was perfect. Hungry for a star who didn't display a grungy ambivalence about fame and adulation, the media couldn't resist the hunky newcomer, proclaiming him heir to Cruise, Newman and Brando. The campaign was ably abetted by McConaughey, whom the camera adores and who seems happy to project old-style Hollywood magic. Suddenly McConaughey was everywhere. "I've sat here for six years and not seen anything like this," says Interview editor Ingrid Sischy, who put him on her August cover. "This is the arrival of a Hollywood star...
...things are as painful to watch as a presidential candidate who won't take the medicine he needs and can't resist the poison he doesn't. For a moment last week, Bob Dole seized upon a good idea just when he needed it, a way to end the tobacco war with Katie Couric and perhaps win some points with soccer moms who worry about crime when they vote. Best of all, it was something he had wanted to do for months: end his opposition to Congress's 1994 ban on 19 types of so-called assault weapons. As majority...