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- Mar. 28, 1994: People
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Mar. 28, 1994 Doomed:The Regal Tiger and Extinction
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 75
- By David E. Thigpen
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- <body>
- <p>Give Me Some Slack
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- <p> Many a song is marketed as the bottled zeitgeist of a generation,
- but when a fluky hit like Loser, by 23-year-old Los Angeles
- boy-waif Beck Hansen, runs up the charts, it has to be the real
- thing. With sarcastic lyrics like "I'm a loser, baby/ So why
- don't you kill me?" and its mix of rap-style grooves and slide
- guitar, the song has become an anthem of nihilism chic among
- slackers. But the singer isn't pleased with commercial success.
- "I didn't want things to get cheesy or homogenized," he says.
- "Not that they aren't already."
- </p>
- <p>Big-Screen Elle
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- <p> Back home in Australia she's nicknamed "the Body." In the States
- she's known for her swimsuit modeling. So it didn't take a genius
- to cast Elle MacPherson to play Sheela, the painter's model
- in Sirens, a new film set in Australia during the 1930s. This
- is MacPherson's acting debut (not counting a cameo in the film
- Alice), and she performs with a mischievous, sensual relish
- that has won critics over. "Americans equate nudity with sex,"
- she says. "Australians don't." Silly Americans.
- </p>
- <p>Seen & Heard
- </p>
- <p> After Zsa Zsa Gabor called Elke Sommer a Hollywood has-been
- in a German magazine last year, Sommer sued, and last December
- a court ordered Gabor to pay Sommer $3 million. As a result,
- Gabor has filed for bankruptcy protection in Beverly Hills,
- California. The next time she slaps a cop, she'll be driving
- a Hyundai instead of a Rolls-Royce.
- </p>
- <p> Surely he was expecting his own field of dreams, but spring
- training has been more like quicksand for Michael Jordan. So
- when he finally got his first hit (in 17 at bats), his teammates
- doused him in champagne. Enjoy it now, Michael. In the minor
- leagues it's beer at best.
- </p>
- <p> He's published one short novel in the past 20 years, so devoted
- readers were thrilled to learn that Thomas Pynchon has produced
- a new work: liner notes to Spiked! The Music of Spike Jones.
- Pynchon describes the rare pleasure of enjoying Spike's big-band
- slapstick with a phrase that could apply to his own writings:
- "like good cowbell solos, few and far between."
- </p>
- <p>Change of Heart
- </p>
- <p> After Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith were divorced in 1978,
- it took them 11 years to remarry. But things seemed to happen
- more quickly last week. Griffith filed for divorce amid scuttlebutt
- that Johnson had chatted up an Aspen, Colorado, restaurant T-shirt
- saleswoman named Holly. Within days, though, the two stars reconciled.
- Meanwhile, Holly made the tour of tabloid-TV shows.
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