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...research, conducted by Japanese and Scottish scientists, may be a wee bit flimsy, as it is based almost entirely on how 104 Japanese and British women responded to some digitally altered photos. But it's reasonably intuitive and might explain such phenomena as the brevity of the Carmen Electra-Dennis Rodman marriage. It also jibes with what evolutionary psychologists have been saying for some time. When it comes to settling down, women know that the alpha male may not be the best bet for the "parental investment" required to raise a human child. But when the biological bells are clanging...
...ouch, baby, very ouch, when the original James Bond met his mocker Austin Powers during the Cannes Film Festival last month. "Mistah Myers, is this your first time to Cannes?" asked Sean Connery in his thick Scottish brogue. "Yes!" answered Mike Myers nervously. "And is it going well?" Connery inquired. Myers was so flustered before his childhood hero that he could barely squeak out another affirmative reply. "That was all I said, just yes and yes," Myers recalled later. "I was too intimidated to talk, even though I was dying to meet him. What else was I going...
...resolving as it does the relationship between adults and child and also giving Mastrantonio the chance to let some cracks in her composure begin to show. The movie may be called Limbo, but it definitively rescues Mastrantonio from the land of the lost. If her next film, the small Scottish family drama My Life So Far, grants her similar opportunities, she may look forward to, if not $20 million pictures, then the sharp-focus roles she so richly deserves...
...better overseas. In a Scottish sculpting competition last month, first prize was awarded to a 3-ft.-high Elvis made of lard. Alas, the masterpiece will last only six months...
Often Glennie would address the audience in her heavy Scottish brogue, and she described the next music, arranged by Ian Finkel, as a "lollipop piece." "The Gypsy Virtuoso" was full of smiling allusions to the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies and the Brahms Hungarian Dances, all poured into the formal mold or a concerto movement. Glennie's arrangement of a Kevin Volans piece, "She who sleeps with a small blanket," is, in her own word, "disconcerting," scored for bongos, congas, bass drum, and marimba. Whoever "She" is, she has nightmares. The concert continued with a virtuoso marimba solo, "Velocities" by Joseph Schwantner...