By Jae-Ha Kim
Chicago Sun-Times
January 11, 2000
Courtney Thorne-Smith looks her usual perky, gorgeous self in the February issue of Shape. But the interview may as well not exist. In a pithy question and answer session with the “Ally McBeal” star, Celeste Fremon conducts a less-than-satisfactory interview. We learn that Thorne-Smith “spent years debating whether to get a boob reduction,” wishes that her arms were thinner and wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to run for an hour every day. And this would be interesting because . . . ?
Ever wonder what the Backstreet Boys look like when they drop trou? Well, check out the halfway clad boy band on the cover of the current issue of Rolling Stone. Though not nearly as naked as the female cover girls that the magazine seems to enjoy exploiting on a regular basis, the Boys do reveal their feelings in the interview. David Wild writes in the cover story, “Backstreet Boys have changed the pop turf dramatically, creating a territory where music has become a theme park of the heart–an irony-free zone that offers young musical entertainers a place to join the machine rather than rage against it. Three years after they first broke in the United States, the Backstreet Boys now find themselves bigger than ever–a remarkable achievement, considering that the lifespans of youth-oriented acts are traditionally measured not in years, decades or centuries, but in lunchbox seasons.”
FYI: The Backstreet Boys were the big winners in the magazine’s annual reader’s poll. They won 10 out of 20 categories, including artist of the year, best dressed, best video and best hype (which, I suppose, really isn’t a compliment).
This week’s Time takes an in-depth look at the plight of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, whose father wants him returned to Cuba and whose relatives residing in the United States want him to remain with them in Miami.
And in online news, a federal judge ordered the operators of an Internet pornography site to stop using Teen magazine’s name in its Web address. The magazine’s president, Lynn Lehmkuhl, said staff discovered the pornography site last week and soon heard from puzzled girls. Teen’s average reader is 15 years old.
