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...audiences which flock to Sanders to hear the Veritones sing “Vogue” year after year, a capella is an immensely popular chance to see pop music and well-known classics performed live. A capella groups also try to keep their jams light, filled with humor and variety...
Adult forces--parents, schools, churches--find it hard to compete with pop culture. Some schools have dress codes that outlaw visible underwear, but enforcing a ban on something as subtle as a thong isn't easy, as a vice principal at a San Diego high school learned to the detriment of her career last year. Her methodology left something to be desired: she was demoted after she lifted skirts for an undies inspection before allowing girls into a school dance...
...shoot some love arrows their way. She's hesitant: "I'm a divorce lawyer, an ass kicker. People can't think of me as some romantic softy." But a softy she is, and soon she's pairing total strangers for her own karmic balance--and $1,000 a pop. Thus is born Miss Match, NBC's frothily appealing wish-fulfillment dramedy...
...other words, it's a Scott Rudin movie. Over the past dozen years, the producer has built a niche for pop comedies written by bright outsiders whom he brings into the fold and shepherds toward success. He has done it with Paul Rudnick (Addams Family Values, In & Out), Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show), Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut) and Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums). Now White gets his Rudin awakening. The result is a comedy that dares to be not different...
Once upon a time, before 10- and 12-year-olds became an outsize economic force, a kid's room was the spot for a hand-me-down chair, a serviceable desk, a throw rug and the latest pop-idol wall posters. Today it's a color-coordinated, fashion-accessorized statement of personal style. Or more precisely, personal style as interpreted by the growing number of retailers rushing to supply this fast-growing $17 billion-a-year market. Vendors, including Pottery Barn, Pier 1, the Bombay Co., Delia's and Target, are creating new products, catalogs and, in some cases, chains...