Word: classically
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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From costume balls to bingo, the QE2's entertainment package is pure nostalgia, often featuring performers like Tommy Steele, Des O'Connor and Fyvush Finkel, who, like much of their audience, have seen their best years but are still going strong. The ship's band plays classic Palm Court compositions from the romantic past. In the British-style pub, a sextet of middle-aged jazz musicians splendidly re-creates the New Orleans sound. Excerpts from Broadway and West End productions are scheduled to start in late May. "Where else," asks Scotsman Reg rhetorically, "can a wealthy senior citizen...
...scored one for free trade and corporate campaign donations by being on the winning side of the China trade bill, but he'd had to buck the Big Labor heavies - and like a boozy faux pas, it might be coming back to haunt him. He'd asked unions the classic New Democrat question - where else you gonna go? - but this time they were giving it some serious thought. "In the end, most of the unions want Al Gore elected," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "But the question is, in November, will they do all they can, not only...
...likes to get to know performers so he can craft songs that fit their personality (he had many a phone conversation with Toni Braxton before co-writing and producing her current Top 10 song He Wasn't Man Enough). He describes his music as "an R.-and-B. pop classical sound." His songs typically mix deep bass grooves with bright rivers of strings. Listening to a Jerkins song is like driving through the 'hood in a limo. Even his missteps intrigue. On the new Spears CD, he produced a remake of the Rolling Stones' classic...
...glimpse the future now. Product placement in movies is an obvious instance of where advertising has slipped outside its traditional container into entertainment. MTV--an entertainment medium designed expressly to sell records--is another classic example. Every time a rapper mentions a brand of anything in a song, advertising slips into art. If you have a Harley-Davidson tattoo, you're there already. If you wear a T shirt with a logo on it, you're also there but with less pain. Eventually, every surface that can display a message will be appropriated for advertising...
...fitting that the two most popular sweeps-TV topics today are mythology (Jason and the Argonauts, Arabian Nights) and classic television. For TV is the closest thing to our own mythology, a tradition of shared tales reflecting our values. Yea, just as chaos doth follow when gods lie with mortals, so doth woe betide the Bradys when Marcia gets a crush on Davy Jones...