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...camp it up around town. A few weeks ago, however, a handful of Glamazons were featured on a live national radio show, guests of a gay-and-lesbian duo named Derek and Romaine who were celebrating their second anniversary on the air. With a bartender mixing martinis in the studio, the scene was suggestive of radio's party days, before Big Radio ate the AM/FM dial, demanded quarterly profit growth and sucked the fun right out of the control booth. Except that a wannabe big corporate entity was footing the bill for the show, broadcast from a gleaming new studio...
...Viacom, behind chief Sumner Redstone. The two clashed famously, in part over personalities and content--Redstone loving the superstar deal, Karmazin leery of it. According to a source close to Viacom, Karmazin referred to the creative folks as the "arts and crafts people." Viacom's Paramount movie studio earned a reputation for pennypinching during his reign, and after Karmazin left, Paramount executives were encouraged to take more risks on potential blockbusters. "Sumner was always Mr. Content Is King, and that was a little in conflict with Mel's natural tendency to drive quarterly growth," says a source close...
...album of turgid, synth-heavy pop. A foray into R&B covers with a band called The Honeydrippers brought him some commercial success, but little creative joy. In the mid-'90s, he reunited with Page. The duo's live shows frequently revisited Zeppelin's Valhalla heights, but their formulaic studio album, 1998's Walking Into Clarksdale, lumbered along like a mastodon. "We were always dogged by the past," admits Plant. "It's better like this, apart. It gives me more space to breathe." For Plant, divorce has finally paid off. Using a group of seasoned session musicians called The Strange...
...took them five years and three well-received albums to make it to this, the second date on their first-ever U.S. tour—for good reason. Their releases are meticulous, alien, and almost impossible to imagine taking form on stage: spare collisions of folk and studio where left-field vocal samples interrupt twilight plucks and crescendos are spliced and diced...
...almost literally the beginning. I don't recall if I saw any films before Star Wars, and afterward I evaluated every film against it. I liked seeing 20th Century Fox movies just so I could catch the studio's martial drumbeat theme, which precedes the words "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ..." Upon hearing the Fox drums, I always hoped the projectionist would roll Star Wars and not, say, Chariots of Fire, which my parents cruelly sold to me and my brother as "a movie about racing." My first non-kid's movie was Corvette Summer...