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...appear to be similar: where final clubs perpetuate and exaggerate society's sexism and misogyny, Radcliffe's goal has always been to provide facilities for a group that has been historically underprivileged. Never having frequented final clubs, however, I do not feel qualified to expound on them at length...
Last Sunday, we paid another visit to directress/raconteur Erica Werner in her faux-Titian dorm room. Outside it was cold and dreary, but inside we found Ms. Werner in fine fettle, cooing merrily at her Bonsai tree. Clad in a chain-metal sheath and matching elbow-length gloves, both by Gaultier, with hair by Vidal Sassoon, Ms. Werner discoursed savvily on topic ranging from the Knights Templar to the common cold. As always, we were impressed by her smarts. But we were not where we were--that is, in the presence of genius disguised as high fashion--to engage...
...sense of playing music that was about rock and roll. rather than playing rock and roll music--went hand in hand with a pure belief in the do-it-yourself, amateur ethic. The ethic showed up in their economic: the original Raincoats LP was one of the first full-length releases on the cooperative Rough Trade label. It showed up in the record's crisp production, in which each movement of fingers along the electric-guitar finger-board, and each breath Gina Birch takes, can be heard. And it showed up in the lack of "technical skill" which informs each...
...cameras in a series of ads for Weight Watchers but also attends their meetings in a Weight Watchers Super Start program infomercial. Mel Harris joins Victoria Principal to pitch skin-care products; Dionne Warwick offers us psychic phenomena; Ali McGraw hawks more beautifiers, all in program-length commercials. This month Joan Rivers converted her daytime talk show into a new program combining gab with salesmanship, aptly titled Can We Shop. Even Roseanne and Tom Arnold have found time for a potentially lucrative sideline: in April they will begin appearing on a new home-shopping channel called ViaTV, promoting their line...
...entering the traditionally shadowy universe of direct marketing. "More so than ever, we have clients coming to us saying, 'I want to do an infomercial. Find me the right one,' " claims Rick Bradley, a talent representative at the William Morris Agency who pairs celebrities with the right program-length ads. (Among his clients: John Tesh and Connie Sellecca, who appear in an infomercial for a series of videotapes that promise to improve your romantic $ relationships.) Says Steve Howard, president of Williams Television Time, an infomercial-produc tion company: "In the old days you had to beat down the door...