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...exactly legendary, '80s Hair Bands did once know how to make America rock-and this summer, they want to prove that they still can. That's why bands like Poison, Slaughter, Dokken and Cinderella are joining forces for a 46-concert tour, kicking off June 13 in Hershey, Penn. And while you can expect to hear some new, not-so-famous tunes, the bands promise to give fans what they want. Slaughter topper Mark Slaughter says he'll give his fans their money's worth with classic hits like "Up All Night" and "Burning Bridges...
...controversial motion picture." And upon listening, several "controversial" traits are clear: the soundtrack is just as pretentious and just as mildly unsuccessful as the movie. This is not to say that some of the cuts are not appealing. Dope's industrial punk version of Dead or Alive's '80s classic "You Spin Me Round" and New Wave classics from Information Society ("What's On Your Mind") and New Order ("True Faith") are great the first couple of times around. So is M/A/R/R/S' classic "Pump Up The Volume." Hip-hop makes an appearance in the form of a remix of Eric...
...star) about Huey Lewis and the News before he kills a character, followed by that group's very own "Hip To Be Square." Sadly, that was the only song to make it into the soundtrack amongst the musical references in Bale's memorable monologues in the film about major '80s stars, such as Phil Collins and Whitney Houston, and unfortunately it's been deleted from the newer versions of the soundtrack. What is left is a humorless shell, a mish-mash of remixes that after the first cacophonous and starkly violent playing, leave the listener no reason to come back...
...corrupt elite, seized power. But rather than fight on, the new regime of Captain Valentine Strasser hired a South African mercenary firm, Executive Outcomes, which was composed primarily of apartheid-era special forces officers who'd had plenty of experience in southern Africa's brutal wars of the '80s, to deal with the rebels. The mercenaries' price included a substantial share of the country's diamond mines. Although their 21-month sojourn in Sierra Leone cost the country $35 million, they got the job done. The rebels were smashed and confined to small pockets of the country, the diamond fields...
...Autograph Man, a leaner novel about a half-Chinese, half-Jewish autograph hunter that is peopled with porn freaks, movie stars and sexual deviants. She is determined to write a daring book, perhaps more along the lines of American Psycho, which she considers the finest book about the '80s. "I don't want to be on my best behavior anymore," she warns. With this pungent debut, she has certainly earned the right to misbehave...