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...comedy Bio-Dome, and now a crimesolving New York City cop. In his new movie One Tough Cop, Stephen portrays Bo Dietl, a former NYPD officer who apprehended the men who viciously assaulted a New York City nun in 1981. Attired in slick black clothes and with even slicker hair, Stephen looked like a tough cop as he talked about his newest movie, and being one of the stars in the Baldwin constellation...
Casting off the satanic trappings and apocalyptic rants that mesmerized a huge teen audience, rock's prince of darkness has made himself over with a lighter new look--think Roswell alien goes Vegas--and a slicker sound. Mechanical Animals takes Manson away from his industrial-rock roots and moves him closer to mainstream heavy metal. Gone is the bludgeoning attack of his earlier albums; here he finds room for more melody, even some hooks. Beneath the makeup, Manson is still rock's most piercing critic--blasting, among other things, youth culture, rock music and conservatives. Manson fans, fear...
...sold millions of records. He went to Hollywood, appeared in 33 movies, sold millions of records, lived a gaudy life so high and wide that it seemed like a parody of an American success story. And he kept selling records, well over 500 million in all. The music got slicker and often sillier, turned from rock toward rhinestone country and spangled gospel. Only the pace remained the same. Elvis Aron Presley always lived fast, and last week at the age of 42, that was the way he died...
...hottest corner of food retailing, in which soccer moms mingle with ponytailed herbalists in the aisles of sparkling new stores. Sales of organic products alone, a mere $178 million in 1980, have blossomed into more than $4 billion, while sales of "natural" products--a term that's slicker than soy paste--have tripled in the 1990s and now exceed $12 billion. The retail organic-and-natural-foods business is gorging itself on 20%-plus annual-sales increases, in contrast to a subsistence diet of 2%-to-3% increases at traditional grocery chains...
...satisfyingly rich, juicy slice of '50s noir, and quite possibly the most deftly crafted film to emerge yet this year. Slicker and less disturbingly gritty than "Chinatown," but more bang-out entertaining, it's boosted by a a superlative cast--the crown jewel of which is a trio of masterful performances by Kevin Spacey and Aussie newcomers Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce (particularly the latter) as the unlikely LAPD allies who attempt to disinter the sordid, convoluted truth behind an apparently cut-and-dried murder case...