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...Mexican public was particularly shocked by the slaying of singer Sergio Gomez, who founded his band K Paz de la Sierra while he was an immigrant in Chicago. He had scored a recent hit with Pero Te Vas a Repentir, or "But You Will Have Regrets," a love song so catchy that half the country was humming it. Gomez was abducted after a concert in his native Michoacan state, beaten and burned and then strangled with a plastic cord...
...Somebody says something commonplace within his hearing, we see a dim gleam of recognition in his eye and - bam! - the next thing we know his band is playing the song featuring the overheard phrase, while a montage shows it rising on the charts. As it is in allegedly authentic biopics, so it is in this send-up. There is no effort or intentionality in Dewey's story. He writes songs the same way he gets girls - by standing around and looking receptive. We are to understand him as the pure product of, the pure prisoner of, his "genius." Which...
...Putin eschews charm, Platon, the great English portrait photographer, exudes it. Putin, we were told, does not pose for portraits. He did for Platon, who was able to tease out of the President a fact that several journalists could not. Putin's favorite Beatles song? Yesterday...
...That look includes a special line of (what else?) White Shoes sneakers designed by Bandung-based clothing retailer 347, as well as their own model of Vespa scooter - the ultimate Mod accessory. Artwork for the band's latest release, the five-song EP Skenario Masa Muda, reveals an abiding passion for Mod style. In a photograph mocked-up to resemble a 1960s postcard, band members are shown posing in a tailor's shop, like a clutch of Carnaby Street dandies...
...game has been running for half an hour when the bright lights are abruptly turned back on, accompanied by a kooky Korean love song. Scores flash on a digital screen revealing that the killers have lost. The latent tension in the room spontaneously erupts into a cacophony of recriminations. "You **** ! I told you, it's all your fault. You should talk less, and think before you open your mouth. Why are you so stupid? Can you tell me that? No! Then you're even more stupid than I thought you were." Sensing it's only a matter of time before...