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Arts Stories for 2-4-2000

Beck 'Sexx' circus takes center ring at Hill concert

Last night at Hill Auditorium, Beck turned it up, and made "all the people scream." The seminal solo artist of our generation (so far), Beck has been called loser, slacker and genius. On Thursday, he proved himself both and a mastermind, both theatrically and musically. For a solid hour and 40 minutes, Beck and his skin-tight backing band delivered a rousing mix of funk, folk and rock - transcending genre and warping labels.

Smart scares, jokes all in spooky fun for a fitting end to 'Scream' trilogy

Try, if you will, to ignore the clichés surrounding the third film in the "Scream" trilogy. This is not an easy task given that the movie gleefully prides itself on building up and, every once in a great while, tearing down the assumptions about genre and expectation that it trumpets through mouthpiece characters who apparently know all there is to know about horror movie patterns.

Allen hits right notes in 'Sweet' styled film

The story begins in a jazz club with a familiar middle-upper class setting of aficionados in a local town during the '20s and '30s. When Emmett is playing the guitar, his eyes are closed and his lips and head move slightly to the rhythms of his strumming. These deeply expressionistic looks contrast his own personality and allure women who think his soul is filled with attractive turbulence and emotion.

Teen Moore bursts into bubble gum pop scene

The boys with pimples and the girls with braces are hanging around the hallways of MTV, hoping they'll see Mandy. They are shy. They feel unworthy. She is a goddess. Who just blew in from L.A. to host "TRL'' - "Total Request Live,'' where her totally awesome video is No. 6 on the countdown. Here she comes in black leather pants and a clingy purple top - her teeth perfectly white, her hair lightened and feathered - standing nearly six feet in platform soles. A willowy girl-woman being fussed over by a coterie of imagemakers and product-placers. "Hey, guys,'' she greets her fans. She smiles radiantly; they smile back awkwardly. She loves her fans and would love to chat, but - gotta go.

Latin sound shakes its bon bon out of Paris, heads to U.S.

The past couple of years have seen landmark collaborations between Cuban and American musicians scale the charts and sell into the millions in the United States, most notably the Buena Vista Social Club-Ry Cooder project and its myriad spinoffs and clones. Now a mini-wave of Cuban collaborations is rolling into the U.S. marketplace - but they don't involve established American artists. Rather, they feature young musicians from Paris.

2-4-2000