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...minor phenomenon on the Asian music scene. Audiences in the region are demonstrably drawn to fetching violinists who can play the moldies?as long as compositions are laced with contemporary hooks, dance beats, and the occasional hip thrust. Record labels are busy marketing other young fiddler-cum-vamp acts such as Diana Yukawa of the U.K., American Hilary Hahn and Akiko Suwanai of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex in the Symphony | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...audition), staying--according to most reports--as cheerfully poised at 5 a.m. as she was at 3 p.m. "There is something profoundly authentic and genuine about Jennifer," says Ken Olin, who directed six of this season's episodes. "As stylized as the show can be, she's not a vamp. She inhabits this role like a nifty girl from West Virginia, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Chick Who Kicks | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...betrothal of director TIM BURTON and LISA MARIE, his alien in Mars Attacks! and TV vamp in Ed Wood, made odd sense. Who else could be Burton's wacky muse? Three words: HELENA BONHAM CARTER. The monkey business didn't start until after the release of Burton's film Planet of the Apes, in which Bonham Carter (left, at the movie's premiere) and Marie played foxy simians. (During the shoot, notes Bonham Carter's rep, "she was in latex from head to toe.") That's the way things began between Bonham Carter and then-married Kenneth Branagh too, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 5, 2001 | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...album, piano-wielding diva Tori Amos has created distinct personalities for each of her 12 songs, complete with photos featuring Amos with 12 different hairstyles, costumes and names for each of her incarnations, with enigmatic phrases by Neil Gaiman to explain them: The heartless vamp of “I’m not in love” is labeled, “She forgets him utterly and forever;” while the serenely blonde figure of death from “Time” reminds: “One day you will open your eyes...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tori! Tori! Tori! | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

...plot of Bridget Jones's Diary ripens, and two handsome men--rapacious Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and dull Mark Darcy (Colin Firth)--tumble vagrantly into her heart, Zellweger reveals, as in a soul's striptease, Bridget's appeal. Inside this "verbally incontinent spinster" (as Darcy calls her), a brilliant vamp is aching to be set free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Full-Witted | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

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