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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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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
PEOPLE, Page 75
By David E. Thigpen
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<body>
<p>Give Me Some Slack
</p>
<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
</p>
<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.
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<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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