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...real excitement on this little EP, however, comes with the next three tracks. Together, they are smart, varied, powerful and uncompromising. At first, "As If Your Life Depended On It" seems to be a condemnation of used women in the vein of Hatfield's rant "Supermodel." However, an intricate pronoun game at work in the song reveals its actual subject: Hatfield herself. Instead of saying "I" over and over, Hatfield starts the song out in the second person, pointedly commenting on an unknown woman's pathetic dependency: "Crack a joke/light his smoke/as if your life depended...
Charles (Anthony Hopkins) is rich beyond the dreams of greed--his dreams, anyway. Other people may have other ideas. Take Robert (Alec Baldwin), a fashion photographer who seems way too chummy with Charles' supermodel wife (Elle Macpherson). On a photo shoot in the Great White North, the two men--Robert with strength and youth, Charles with loads of book learning--fly off in a small plane to an even remoter location. "So," Charles asks Robert, "how are you planning to kill me off?" Seconds later, the plane crashes...
...illusion--something millions of males would dearly love to believe. The mag published a contract between Copperfield's German promoter and Schiffer that showed she was paid $20,000 for attending the 1993 show where the two met. The suit states that Paris Match added that the supermodel now gets paid for pretending to be Copperfield's fiance and doesn't even like him. Copperfield isn't denying the first deal, but he's so incensed at the second that he's suing for $30 million...
...fashion runway at the N.B.A. play-offs--the sidelines where spiffy coaches in designer suits patrol the hard court. Players may have fancy footwear contracts, but many coaches have their own clothing deals. The trail was blazed by Pat ("the Peacock") Riley (1) of the Miami Heat, the sleek Supermodel among N.B.A. coaches, who has a deal with Giorgio Armani. Now a host of others are coming out of the closet. Herewith some coaches and their fashion allegiances...
Some Americans were personally affronted by the Italian media and said the Italians could keep their supermodel first lady; we'll keep our Yale law school graduate. But then we turn around and criticize appearances ourselves...