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Volatile alterna-goddess COURTNEY LOVE has found a new outlet for all of her raw emotion. The widow of Kurt Cobain and lead singer of the ever more successful rock band Hole will make her film debut opposite surfer dude-action hero-Hamlet Keanu Reeves in the dark comedy Feeling Minnesota...
Some 30 years ago, settling down after a brilliant student debut at London's Royal College of Art, Kitaj was loosely put in with the English Pop movement; but his work had very little to do with Pop. Its real ancestry was Surrealist-the exegesis of dreams through collage and montage, the impaction of seemingly unrelated images. And its preferred terrain was recent. Let other Americans in Europe have their fantasies about Medicean Florence or the court of the Sun King; Kitaj had edgy, bad dreams of the comparatively recent past, a 20th century that began...
Nobody got murdered that night. The guys in Hootie would rather get into an extended jam than a barroom brawl. And the band's burgeoning success seems to indicate that it's got far more fans than redneck detractors. The quartet's absorbing debut album, Cracked Rear View, has become an unexpected commercial smash, selling more than a million copies. Hold My Hand, a catchy sing-along number from the album, is in Billboard's Top 10. The music-video channel VH-1-once seen as a kind of easy-listening, out-of-touch uncle of MTV-recently changed...
...debut novel, Private Altars (Random House; 322 pages; $21), Katherine Mosby audaciously bucks such fashionable themes, and the result is a stunningly lyrical work of fiction. Set in the South during the 1920s and '30s, the novel revolves around the suffering of Vienna Daniels-a woman, Mosby writes, whose "face had the stamp of character intelligence sometimes bestows, and the look of ruined beauty...
...describes Vienna's distaste for mundane tea-table conversation: "It was as remote from her interests as the hieroglyphs spewed from the endless coiling tongue of a ticker-tape machine." The trouble is that the accretion of similes sometimes slows the story to a maddening pace. Nevertheless, Mosby's debut serves as a rich and accomplished antidote to the works of so many nouveau minimalists...