work and not get paid for any of it?' "
Two years later, Carrigg, 27, Goldman, 26, and two fellow Vassar College buddies, Clare Bundy, 28, and Andrea "Dre" Pyros, 26, are getting paid for their chatty, cheeky film talk. In February, the site (www.girlsonfilm.com) was acquired by Concrete Media, a New York City new-media firm, which hired the four to run it. The site, whose subtitle is Chicks, Flicks, Politicks, draws about 80,000 hits a week, many to the contentious bulletin boards where the Girls defend their opinions. ("G.I. Jane," wrote Goldman, "reminds me of those extreme sports events that are always on ESPN2...extreme one-arm push-ups, extreme training...extremely unnecessary cigar smoking.") Webhead Roger Ebert gives thumbs up: "They're good writers and entertaining."
Thanks to a syndication deal, the Girls' reviews are also running in three newspapers—ironic, says Carrigg, because "when we started, we couldn't even get into one press screening, ever. We were so garage, we could say whatever we wanted." Now, she says, that independent streak has "become the thing that people really love about us."
As video game premises go, you can't do much better than battling giant alien bugs. A new Men in Black CD-ROM, based on this summer's biggest box office hit, also manages to capture some of the movie's charm. In the game, released this month by publisher The Design League, Earth is being threatened by yet another alien plot. As animated versions of the three-screen MiBs, gamers solve logic puzzles and combat creepy crawlers to save humanity Players should choose their alter egos with care: Will Smith's Agent J is "street-smart and quick," says game producer David Koenig, while Linda Fiorentino's Agent L is a kung fu expert, and Tommy Lee Jones's K is a "bar brawler." Best of all, the movie's over-the-top weaponry (including the memorably mighty Noisy Cricket) is included.
>DIVAS IN DEMAND
Lilith Fair, this summer's all-female traveling music festival, boosted the profiles of a new wave of alternative-rock chanteuses. Two Lilith vets, Jewel and Fiona Apple, are now among the most searched-for female singers at the Web search site Lycos. But pop, country, R&B and rap also send representatives to the genrespanning list of faves. The Top 10:
1 Madonna 2 Mariah Carey 3 Jewel 4 Samantha Fox 5 Lil' Kim 6 Toni Braxton 7 Tori Amos 8 Fiona Apple 9 Shania Twain 10 Dolly Parton
AUG. 11 THROUGH AUG. 25 (LYCOS: WWW.LYCOS.COM)
- Contributors:
- Samantha Miller,
- Cynthia Wang.
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
