Word: dealing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...viewer of VH1's Behind the Music knows, the road to stardom has many detours. In 1991 Steve Greenberg, then a talent scout at Atlantic, signed the Men. Two albums sold fewer than 20,000 copies each; when Greenberg left, Atlantic dropped the band. Greenberg rescued them with a deal at his new label, Mercury. "It became a standing joke in the music industry," he says, "that whenever I moved to a new label, the first thing I did was sign Baha Men." But this time out sales were even worse; the group's second and final CD for Mercury...
Stagnation breeds attrition. Lead singer Nehemiah Hield departed, so the Men added three members under 25. Now they had hunks American teenage girls could swoon over--but still no record deal...
...boosters are miffed. "What makes us any different from pants with pockets?" asks Billy Ruff, 36, who co-founded the Costa Mesa, Calif., company that makes the shoes. "Levi's has their little hidden fifth pocket, and nobody's making a big deal about that." Decorated with cartoonish flames, stars and devil's tails, Sha Shas are flashier than most Doc Martens and have a cushier sole. "Besides looking dope, the shoes are really comfortable," says Glenn Innes, 23, the editor of SuperPunk.com in Edmonton, Alta., who adds that he has never stored anything in the G-spot...
...Shas party has promised him its temporary support. But it was Shas's defection from his governing coalition last spring that had precipitated Barak's decline, and any respite offered by the religious party is likely to be temporary. And that leaves Barak forced to either sweeten the unity deal for Sharon by giving him effective veto over any peace initiatives, or else face new elections that pollsters right now predict he'll almost certainly lose...
...almost daily. The fact that there are a lot more guns on the Palestinian side this time around makes the conflict likely to be more protracted and even bloodier. And Yasser Arafat finds himself its prisoner. He needed this uprising to prove to the Israelis and Americans that the deal being offered on Jerusalem simply wouldn't fly, but it's quickly evolved into something way beyond negotiating leverage. Arafat over the weekend called for an intensification of the intifada, even though he knows full well that the sacrifices this involves won't win him the state he covets...