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alloy-digest Tuesday, October 5 1999 Volume 04 : Number 269
Today's Subjects:
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Re: Alloy: Dolby says it's payback time! [CJMark@aol.com]
Alloy: weird interview/English table manners [RThurF@aol.com]
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 01:27:50 EDT
From: CJMark@aol.com
Subject: Re: Alloy: Dolby says it's payback time!
Robyn..
The same thing happened to TLC. They sold 10 million copies of their Crazy,
Sexy, Cool.. or whatever it was called CD.. but after all the expenses.. were
evidently still in debt. (There is some dispute about whether it was an
excuse to bail out of the management they had) Anyhow... it's a common story
amongst the record companies and bands.. Too bad...
Ciao for now...
Mark
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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:58:10 EDT
From: RThurF@aol.com
Subject: Alloy: weird interview/English table manners
I've gotten another interview in, which I can't add to my page just yet, but
I thought the beginning of it was remarkable! I thought I'd share some of it
with you here. This interview is from 1984 and takes place in Los Angeles.
The journalist, Vicki Greenleaf, for Modern Recording and Music magazine,
introduces Thomas to her readership like so:
"The bespectacled man - unable to compete with with the sex appeal of Sting
of the Police or other musicians who find that part of their attraction to
teenagers is their appearance - encouraged his reputation as an absent-minded
professor.."
Ummm.. right away I can see that this journalist and I are existing in
completely different universes (shriek!!) It's always astonishing and also
hilarious to hear someone else's point of view about this sort of thing. I
can honestly say that in my entire life I've never looked twice at Sting or
ever once thought he was sexy. Yet the instant I laid eyes on Thomas I was
comatose! And I immediately found him extraordinarily sexy and very very nice
to look at indeed..
The journalist then goes on to describe how long it takes Thomas to locate
his room key ("supporting the rumor concerning his purported
absentmindedness"...!) and later describes with detail how he goes about
eating his eggs once they've begun the interview ("gripping his fork upside
down in his left hand and prodding eggs benedict onto the instrument with a
knife in his right hand...")
Before I read the rest of this interview I think I'd better ask for some help
from those of you who know about such things. In trying to imagine the scene
based on the journalist's description, my mind has got him either grabbing
the fork by its tines & using the handle to eat with (unlikely!) or holding
it backhand in his fist so that he must twist his whole arm to get the eggs
onto it (probably also wrong..!). The interviewer comments on the process as
an example of Thomas being 'very much the proper Englishman'. What exactly
should I be picturing? What's the proper English way to eat eggs benedict?
Robin T
who knows nothing of eggs, or proper English table manners!
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