80% of all animal species
are art-ful-pods!

miniQUIZ: Name this scene: It took 7 days to shoot with 70 camera setups for 45 seconds of footage and the director used a nude body double instead of the star. Answer later.

FASHION: Her name is Webbie Tookay, and she's been called the perfect fashion model - never late, never too tired, never ages! Her management is Elite Models (who handle Cindy, Naomi, and Linda Evangelista). But unlike them, Webbie is a virtual model (a combination of a voluptuous European blonde, a Latina and an Asian woman) created by Swedish designer Steven Stahlberg, "We are very proud of her personality and her character. She has environmental concerns, she is for birth control and besides she looks very pretty." See her at www. illusion2k.com . (Reuters) /// One of Musea's fav. publishers is Dover (well made, cheap price) They've just released, "Grace Kelly Paper Dolls In Full Color" for $5. It contains 30 of her screen outfits. Now that's fun.

WRITING: Quote: "It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature, otherwise writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes ... In the West, the problem is not freedom. There are other servitudes - lack of talent, thousands of mediocre books published every year." Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer. /// Did you know that in the Maasai language (a cattle herding nomadic people in Kenya) there are 9 different words for cow horn? (World Press Review). /// And nearer home, Musea salutes as our CAMP CHAMP Constance Hilliard, associate professor of history at UNT, for her '97 book, The Intellectual Traditions of Pre-Colonial Africa. "I wanted to place ancient African writings back into their proper context. I hope that after learning about these writings, people will view Africa as more than a place for famine or civil war." (The North Texan)

MOVIE QUOTE #2: There are certain actors that you know will never learn their lines. They ruin everyone else's performance because they don't throw the lines back fast enough, and it will always force a cut back to them. - Sonnenfeld.

miniQUIZ answer: The Shower Scene in Hitchcock's film Psycho

MUSIC: Johanna Ala-Siurua, a 27 year old Finnish woman has won the 4th annual air-guitar world championships in Oulu, Finland. She won dressed as AC/DC guitarist Angus Young, and doing Let There Be Rock. The jury said, "She has that certain something that separates mere winners from champions." And she did it without a cardboard guitar or tennis racket! (Reuters)

THEATER: Musea would like to suggest an all THEATER tv network with a mixture of live theater on prime time with taped theater the rest of the day : 1 acts, big plays, opera, short plays, monologues, 1 man shows, symphonies, musical theater, live dance, etc. Keep us growing and we'll do it!

ZINES With 25,000 of them out there, how do you find which are the best? Well, Reader's Guide to the Underground Press (formerly Zine World), the review zine is the place to start & now has a website at www. UndergroundPress.org /// Also notable on the web for anyone concerned with local gov. is www. lauramiller.com Ms. Miller, city councilman, is one of Musea's local heroes. /// Also for poetry in English we recommend: www. bartleby.com/verse . It's 'verse' - rate! /// One of Musea's books is The Invaders that on the back claims "Here's a first / sci - fi in verse". A British reader, Steve Sneyd wrote and said hardly so. He listed all kinds of sci-fi verse. Musea apologizes and says, "We are not alone!"

ART: The Meadows museum has it's first El Greco, Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation, that was purchased recently from Christie's Auction House. The piece has never been shown publicly and was painted 1605-1610. The Meadows continues to be Dallas's best art museum.(Met)

MOVIE QUOTE #3 Someone told me that the span of dreams is 90 min., or REM cycles, and there's a reason why movies are supposed to be that long. I like that theory. - Sonnenfeld.

CITY PLANNING: "When I moved in, I stopped having the lawn mowed. I'd love to say it was for ecological - or aesthetic - reasons, but it was really to spare the trouble and expense ... The meadow of flowers that sprang up a year later became an enormous bird feeder - milkweed, clematis, rambling rose, dock, crown vetch, mullein, clover, thistle, sedges, reeds, and grasses. Doves, robins, woodcocks, wild turkey, orioles, thrushes, cardinals, finches, mockingbirds, waxwings - all are nibbling, gnawing, stripping, grubbing, in the dish that is my backyard. The marsh draws mute swans by the impressive dozens, herons, least terns, piping plovers, gulls, hawks, ibis, ospreys. Letting the field naturalize was the most productive gardening decision I've ever made." D. Browning, ed. H & G.

Stay Revolutionary! See ya soon.

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