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...parent (her mom doesn't know she's a vampire slayer); the insularity of generic suburbia (Buffy lives in familiar but fictional Sunnydale, Daria in Lawndale); and a dumb but popular nemesis, Cordelia, who sets out to test Buffy's coolness quotient on Buffy's first day at school. "Vamp nail polish?" Cordelia inquires. "So over," Buffy confidently answers. "John Tesh?" Cordelia persists. "The devil," Buffy replies...
...anchorman Tom Brokaw was one of the three most uncomfortable men in America last Tuesday night. Like his counterparts at ABC and CBS, he had to vamp on the air as two bizarrely incompatible events prepared to collide: President Clinton's State of the Union speech and a verdict in the O.J. Simpson civil trial. In Brokaw's earpiece, frantic conversations were taking place between NBC News executives in New York City and the producer on duty in Washington, with Brokaw chiming in whenever he got a few seconds off the air. "It was an American cultural meltdown," he says...
...First Wives Club in stadium-size droves. The three screen-grabbing actresses don't just do well by beating their feckless husbands at the money game; they do good by opening a women's crisis center with the proceeds. They do not shrink from campiness, either, as they vamp through a girl-group rendition of You Don't Own Me in the final scene...
Maybe Chanel started it with its burnt-burgundy Vamp nail polish. Maybe the cosmetics industry finally found a way to co-opt grunge. Whichever, names for cosmetic colors are getting a lot less glamorous. Poppy offers a lipstick called Vanity. Hard Candy has one called Porno and another called Navel. But for names that really scream grotesque, it's tough to beat Urban Decay, whose new fall colors for lips, eyes and nails include Rust, Gash, Gangrene, Vapor and Toxin. Surprisingly, no less a store than Nordstrom's has bought the line, which is selling best in its Mall...
DIED. BRIGITTE HELM, 88, the robot-vamp actress in Fritz Lang's 1926 cult classic Metropolis; in Ascona, Switzerland...