Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instead." The moguls also think of how the Amy Heckerling comedy Clueless transformed Jane Austen's Emma into a modern-teen hit, and they dip some literary favorite into the fountain of youthpix. The fall film Ten Things I Hate About You, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock from the Sun, is "The Taming of the Shrew in high school." Next year's Cruel Inventions, with Gellar and Dawson's Joshua Jackson, was pitched as "Dangerous Liaisons in high school." Then there's Strike, billed as "Lysistrata in high school." Can a teen Finnegans Wake be far behind...
...Dave Matthews Band (DMB) is building on that achievement with the summer's most exciting rock tour. Last week the group launched its 23-city road show with a sold-out appearance in Virginia Beach, Va., where they kept an ecstatic crowd of 20,000 on its feet despite sweltering heat. The band that once paid its dues by playing fraternity houses drew an impressively diverse coalition of college students, young suburban professionals, Lilith Fair stalwarts, fusion-music devotees and even recovering Deadheads. For fan Sarah Patejak, 18, the music's allure was that "it's all-purpose...
...time when record buyers are abandoning the monotony of alternative rock in favor of the music smorgasbord of movie soundtrack albums, it is perhaps no surprise that the DMB has broken out. For years the band's hard-to-categorize music was scorned by serious rock critics, who considered it overblown frat rock. The group is suddenly being viewed as a legitimate, deserving successor to the great American jam-band tradition of the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers...
...they have aching hearts, but from the perspective of a true punk, it seems false and foolish to sing openly of love in such a sullied world. So tender emotions are hidden, which makes their hearts ache all the more. The Clash's album London Calling contained one of rock's best love songs, Train in Vain, but it was hidden away, buried as an unlisted track. On this album the song Corazon de Oro gives us a brief glimpse into singer Armstrong's heart. "What have I become/ Now that I'm alone?" he croons, his voice shattered...
...needs CNBC when there are Saturday-morning cartoons? Starting this week, Junior can prep for a life on Wall Street with Disney's Money Rock ($14.95), a new Schoolhouse Rock video that teaches the basics of playing the market and paying the taxman. Wacky characters sing toe-tapping financial tips, which will air Saturdays on ABC. Kids can learn their 401(k)s and IRAs on the Web at young investor. com and kidsbank.com...