just stuff
Oct. 29th, 2002 12:44 amNEW YORK (AP) -- Filmmakers are going to Canada to make a movie about former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, angering industry officials who say the film belongs in Giuliani's hometown.
Damn straight. They need the money out there on Long Island.
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Aguilera Sheds Teen Pop Image
It's not clear if her fans will follow. One, Giselle Ascencio, 23, of the Bronx, says she isn't impressed with Aguilera's new look: ``I think she went a little too out there now. The clothes are too much for me -- the lack of clothes is too much.''
Aguilera sees a double-standard in such criticism, noting that videos by male artists often feature nearly naked women dancing suggestively. She also says there wasn't as much of an outcry when Lil' Kim showed up at an MTV awards show a few years ago with a pasty on one breast.
``It's almost a color double-standard that's not fair,'' says Aguilera.
Jamieson says the ``Dirrty'' video is ``no different than what Madonna has done, or what Cher has done. The greatest artists in our lifetime are artists who in many ways are controversial and outspoken.''
Lighthearted teenagers who have been dressing like heroin-addicted hookers from the less-well-lit streets outside the Javitz Center, tragically bummed to discover that they're, like, so over, rushed out to buy...
I'm not sure what. Strategically placed smears of motor oil or something.
I'm sorry, I just couldn't go for the reverse racism thing or the great artist angle. Some things just have to stand or fall on their own.
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Poets' Daughter Feuds With Stepmom
LONDON (AP) -- The daughter of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has accused her stepmother of withholding money Hughes wanted her to have.
Hughes' will left all of his $2.2 million estate to his widow, Carol Hughes, when he died of cancer in 1998.
But the onetime British poet laureate's daughter, Frieda Hughes, wrote in The Sunday Telegraph that her father also left a letter instructing Carol Hughes to share proceeds from sales of his books with his two children and his sister, Olwyn.
``I walk into bookshops and see my father's astonishing works on the shelves, and have to acknowledge that I now feel they have been disconnected from me,'' wrote Frieda Hughes, 42 and also a poet.
Boy, that Ted Hughes was deft with women, wasn't he?
You would have at least thought he would have left the girls the rights to that last book of poems-a-clef, "My wife Mylvia Blath was a neurotic no-talent who let herself go and drove me to infidelity and killed herself and all I got was this damn t-shirt" and the posthumously published follow-up "I left Mylvia for her but my second wife was also a neurotic no-talent who let herself go and drove me to infidelity and killed herself and our kid and all I got was this damn t-shirt, even though the selfish bitch knew I already had one."
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Somebody at the AP is a crankypants
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 40 years after teenagers stood and screamed for the Beatles on ``The Ed Sullivan Show,'' an even younger crowd sat happily and murmured just a few blocks from the old Sullivan theater for a dance tribute to the music of George Harrison.
The American Ballet Theatre staged a hour-long children's concert Saturday at the City Center in midtown Manhattan, with the first two numbers set to Harrison's ``Something'' and ``Isn't It a Pity?'' and performed in tank tops and pants.
The dances were introduced as tributes to ``love and peace,'' although a nitpicking adult could argue that the material didn't quite live up to its billing, that ``Isn't It a Pity'' is a protest against cruelty that leaves cruelty intact, that ``Something'' is as much a question mark about love as a declaration of it. (Harrison would later divorce the woman, Patti Boyd, who inspired ``Something'').
The ruthless bastard. No sense of commitment.
I remember that year. We were all young, all hopeful, all listening to the plaintive strains of Harrison's best friend on his classic Eric Clapton and the Pseudonymous Pickup Band album "I'm fucking Patti Harrison and her husband doesn't know"
er, Layla.
Damn straight. They need the money out there on Long Island.
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Aguilera Sheds Teen Pop Image
It's not clear if her fans will follow. One, Giselle Ascencio, 23, of the Bronx, says she isn't impressed with Aguilera's new look: ``I think she went a little too out there now. The clothes are too much for me -- the lack of clothes is too much.''
Aguilera sees a double-standard in such criticism, noting that videos by male artists often feature nearly naked women dancing suggestively. She also says there wasn't as much of an outcry when Lil' Kim showed up at an MTV awards show a few years ago with a pasty on one breast.
``It's almost a color double-standard that's not fair,'' says Aguilera.
Jamieson says the ``Dirrty'' video is ``no different than what Madonna has done, or what Cher has done. The greatest artists in our lifetime are artists who in many ways are controversial and outspoken.''
Lighthearted teenagers who have been dressing like heroin-addicted hookers from the less-well-lit streets outside the Javitz Center, tragically bummed to discover that they're, like, so over, rushed out to buy...
I'm not sure what. Strategically placed smears of motor oil or something.
I'm sorry, I just couldn't go for the reverse racism thing or the great artist angle. Some things just have to stand or fall on their own.
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Poets' Daughter Feuds With Stepmom
LONDON (AP) -- The daughter of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has accused her stepmother of withholding money Hughes wanted her to have.
Hughes' will left all of his $2.2 million estate to his widow, Carol Hughes, when he died of cancer in 1998.
But the onetime British poet laureate's daughter, Frieda Hughes, wrote in The Sunday Telegraph that her father also left a letter instructing Carol Hughes to share proceeds from sales of his books with his two children and his sister, Olwyn.
``I walk into bookshops and see my father's astonishing works on the shelves, and have to acknowledge that I now feel they have been disconnected from me,'' wrote Frieda Hughes, 42 and also a poet.
Boy, that Ted Hughes was deft with women, wasn't he?
You would have at least thought he would have left the girls the rights to that last book of poems-a-clef, "My wife Mylvia Blath was a neurotic no-talent who let herself go and drove me to infidelity and killed herself and all I got was this damn t-shirt" and the posthumously published follow-up "I left Mylvia for her but my second wife was also a neurotic no-talent who let herself go and drove me to infidelity and killed herself and our kid and all I got was this damn t-shirt, even though the selfish bitch knew I already had one."
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Somebody at the AP is a crankypants
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly 40 years after teenagers stood and screamed for the Beatles on ``The Ed Sullivan Show,'' an even younger crowd sat happily and murmured just a few blocks from the old Sullivan theater for a dance tribute to the music of George Harrison.
The American Ballet Theatre staged a hour-long children's concert Saturday at the City Center in midtown Manhattan, with the first two numbers set to Harrison's ``Something'' and ``Isn't It a Pity?'' and performed in tank tops and pants.
The dances were introduced as tributes to ``love and peace,'' although a nitpicking adult could argue that the material didn't quite live up to its billing, that ``Isn't It a Pity'' is a protest against cruelty that leaves cruelty intact, that ``Something'' is as much a question mark about love as a declaration of it. (Harrison would later divorce the woman, Patti Boyd, who inspired ``Something'').
The ruthless bastard. No sense of commitment.
I remember that year. We were all young, all hopeful, all listening to the plaintive strains of Harrison's best friend on his classic Eric Clapton and the Pseudonymous Pickup Band album "I'm fucking Patti Harrison and her husband doesn't know"
er, Layla.