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LEANN RIMES A tale about a shy and skittish young female jaguar, the pop-country singer's Jag draws on Rimes' experience getting picked on as a kid. Jag never wins a Grammy, but she does befriend some interesting cats...
...according to the New York Times, called the Bolshoi's story "a myth" and said she had switched from ice cream to spinach and was as fit as ever. Volochkova's plunging necklines and friendships with rich, powerful men have made her a pop icon in Russia. "You have such a high opinion of yourself," a theater official told the dancer on Russian TV. What may have really got too big for the Bolshoi, it seems, was the ballerina's head...
...only slightly more complicated than the title. "It's a movie about a woman who challenges five people to duels. That's pretty much it," says Thurman. Whereas Pulp Fiction has three plots, Kill Bill barely has one; Tarantino created no layered subplots, no pathos and no circus of pop references to ground his movie in reality. "He is brilliant, but my job was to take this character out of his wildly creative, seemingly improvisational world and make her human. If the movie was going to be more than a cartoon...
...toll on the music industry: according to the Globe, worldwide CD sales are projected to fall as much as 15% this year. Universal Music Group, recognizing the futility of litigation, is slashing CD prices from $18.98 to $12.98 beginning October 1. Apparently, the RIAA’s monopoly on pop music has ended and the consumer has finally taken...
...price of CDs fails to address the greater issue of why people would ever choose to pay for something they can obtain for free. In the short run, consumers benefit; in the long run, however, record stores would close (like the former HMV Records on Brattle Street), and pop musicians would bypass Lou Perlman’s office for places in the Business School. With no money to be made, there will be no music industry in twenty-five years. Seems like we’ve finally identified a cost that trumps any benefit we might temporarily derive from downloading...