Word: weirdness
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...could see him ending up as the No. 1 draft pick this June." But Yao's bid is caught up in capitalist wrangling?and Chinese political calculations. His team, the Shanghai Sharks, is holding out for a hefty deal to compensate giving up its showcase player. And in a weird twist of realpolitik, Yao's chances of playing in the States could depend on his national rival Wang's hoop success in Dallas: China might not want to risk dispatching another sporting ambassador to failure. "We don't want our players to be embarrassed in the NBA," says a Beijing...
...spot Cliff Robertson and Sally Kirkland... Cathy Moriarty and David Hasselhoff. Weird Al Yankovic here.... Peter Fonda there. I notice Michael Bolton dodging Darva Conger, and I see Amanda Plummer arrive with her beau Tobe Hooper, director of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." It's like watching 20 years of "Entertainment Tonight" compressed into two hours...
...Likewise with the musical numbers. There wasn't the bombastic excess of the past. But there wasn't much of anything else to replace it. The one strong number of the night was unadorned but nonetheless weird: Bjork, doing the eerie "I've Seen It All" from "Dancer in the Dark." The Icelandic singer once made a video with "Ren and Stimpy" animator John Kricfalusi, and here she looked like a winsome cartoon character in her meringue-y dress, alternating between a childish singsong and an operatic wail. Really, it might be worth getting rid of the Best Song category...
...everyone saying 'sideburns', 'snake-skin boots', and 'no girl'," McKendry said. "It's weird, but we love...
...absolutely amazing what he did that night in the studio. I actually had to walk off - it was me and Denniz sitting there doing the recording. When [Jackson] started singing, I just lost it. I had to walk out for a while. I just left him singing. That was weird. Celine Dion was also amazing ... She did the vocals [for 'That's the Way It Is'] in 2 1/2 hours. Just like that. She's tiny! She's very thin! And her output is so loud! It's like if you were watching a sprinter running...