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...Brock sees his dreams of quitting become more unrealistic, he turns to his boyhood pal Mel, who is now a musicbusiness mogul with a gift for packaging anyone as a superstar. Mel comes up with the insanely effective idea of turning Brock into a star so that his books will sell...
Though it avoids pessimism, the book ends by questioning the possibility of escaping from the celebrity world with one's integrity intact. When Brock decides to quit the pop-star scene and publicly admits that it was all a big hype, Mel turns his retirement into the biggest hype of all, putting Brock's retirement speech into a music video. "The integrity of that...it's why they love him," Mel says to Brock about his fans. "And we've also lined up a TV special, "The Big Hype'...all about how the act was manufactured. Honest television. Television that...
...media finally becomes its own biggest celebrity, confessing and absolving itself in an orgy of publicity the way rock stars write tell-all autobiographies. But none of it is really taken seriously. Mel isn't an exploitative mogul, but instead a madcap guy who's a good friend to Brock. And Brock himself is tempted to regard this media catastrophe as half windfall, half big joke. What the hell, it's only a show. And the show must go on. In fact, it never ends...
...elected from California next fall. Moderate Democrat Feinstein, a former mayor of San Francisco, roundly defeated state controller Gray Davis 58% to 33% and will face appointed incumbent John Seymour, a moderate Republican, in November. Liberal Democratic Congresswoman Boxer, with 44%, overcame both Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy and Congressman Mel Levine and will take on conservative Republican Bruce Herschensohn for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Alan Cranston...
...SWEET OF MURTAUGH (DANNY GLOVer) to keep pulling unlighted cigarettes out of his partner's mouth. Since the cops' lives are a nonstop succession of explosions, fire fights and car chases, lung cancer is probably the last thing Riggs (Mel Gibson) needs to worry about. The last thing the makers of LETHAL WEAPON 3 worried about was a complex story -- it's simply about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added...