Word: westons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consider the story a few weeks ago about Riley Weston, the writer on the WB series Felicity who was fired when it was learned she was 32 years old instead of 19, as she had claimed. As a supposed teenager--judging from pictures, she could pass as Winona Ryder's sprightlier kid sister--she was considered a special asset on a show about a college student. Her angry bosses, sounding like defensive Republicans explaining impeachment, said it was the falsehood that troubled them, not the fact that Weston was in reality old enough to be the title character's mother...
...contemporary modernism? How does one resolve the paradox of an institutionalized avant-garde? Couldn't somebody else's will have made them get rid of those silly Dalis? While for me personally the debate didn't cut quite as close to the bone as did the fuss over Riley Weston, it did serve to remind me that I have yet to produce a masterwork of my own and that Van Gogh was 37 when he died...
...Steve's latest band is Shellac. He playsguitar and sings, Bob Weston plays bass, and ToddTrainer drums. Their sound is sparser, funkier,still aggressive and loud, but significantly morerepetitive, less interesting and lessground-breaking than Big Black. My roommate heard"My Black Ass," the first song on their '94 LPAt Action Park, and asked, "Is this RageAgainst the Machine?" (It only took me a week orso to speak to him again.) Steve has announcedthat all Shellac songs are about either Canada orbaseball. Steve is now 36, and his indiecredibility is fading fast...
...then Shellac played. Shellac was good.I had always been under the impression that thevocals were distorted, but that's just the waySteve sounds when he's yelling. Steve jumpedaround a lot and banged his head. Bob Weston's apudgy guy, with curly blond hair. Todd Trainer isthe ugliest man alive--he looks like Splinter fromthe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. All of them canplay the hell out of their instruments. Theystarted with "The Guy Who Invented Fire" and thenplayed all the memorable songs from the firstalbum--"A Minute," "Dog and Pony Show," "TheAdmiral"--and many of their less memorable songsfrom their...
...YOUNG AND THE AGELESS Any actress who can get away with trimming 13 years off her age without undergoing plastic surgery is bound to stir up some resentment. For several years, RILEY WESTON, a 32-year-old divorced actress and screenwriter, has been passing herself off as a 19-year-old, originally to get good roles and later to promote herself as a writing wunderkind. She successfully fooled her agent, the press, her colleagues and Disney, which recently signed her to a six-figure deal. Her secret was discovered last week when someone tipped off Entertainment Tonight that Weston...