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...Zeppelin. As the year comes to a close, it’s time for us to consider the possibilities for the future and then brace ourselves. Here are five acts that shouldn’t come back in ’08: 5. ’N Sync The Backstreet Boys released a new album. The Spice Girls launched a reunion tour. If nature runs its course—and Jive Records files a lawsuit for the two records left on the group’s five-record contract—it won’t be long before this...
...first journalistic assignments came from an American women's magazine. During a 1994 U.N. population conference in Cairo, CNN had aired footage of the backstreet female genital mutilation of a 10-year-old Egyptian girl. Egypt's conservatives claimed that CNN and the girl's family had shamed Egypt on the world stage. A year on, I was asked to find the girl and do an update. But after a few phone calls in Cairo, I begged off the assignment: the girl was in hiding, fearing reprisals. My editors in New York assumed she'd want to "tell her story...
...Boys, Boys, Boys. How far you have fallen from grace. I speak of the Backstreet Boys, of course, who reunite on their sixth studio album, “Unbreakable.” The album is the first new material from the Backstreet Boys in two years, and the first project since Kevin Richardson departed the group. Nothing would please me more than to report that the Backstreet Boys had produced an album that reattained their infectious pop peak, complete with shimmy-inducing songs of unrequited love and perhaps a chart-topping ballad or two. Unfortunately, those who remember the heartthrob...
There was a time when the Backstreet Boys could stand in an airport crooning about the way in which they wanted it, and I was willing to give it to them. But every time Nick Carter reaches his hand out to me in the video for their new single, “Inconsolable,” I don’t grasp wildly at the air in front of me to squeeze it. Instead, I back away warily from the middle-aged man on my TV screen. The video begins with a heavy-set Carter sprawled out on the beach...
...differences between the culture of exposure and the culture of propriety go far beyond sex and sartorial choices. One of my first journalistic assignments came from an American women's magazine. In September 1994, when Cairo was hosting a U.N. population conference, CNN aired footage of the backstreet genital mutilation of a young Egyptian girl. Egypt's conservatives claimed that CNN and the girl's family had shamed Egypt on the world stage. A year on, I was to find the girl and do an update. After a few phone calls in Cairo, I begged off the assignment: the girl...