NOT
DEAD, JUST RESTING !
As the perceptive
among you will realise, once something becomes part of the fabric of popular
culture it is there for good. Either it bubbles along just below the surface
of the zeitgeist retaining enough adherents and picking up enough new devotees
to ensure that every so often it bursts back through into the mainstream
of popular consciousness. Alternatively, a brief exposure to the full glare
of the fashion spotlight is followed by a rapid descent into seeming cultural
oblivion. But as with comicbook super -villains even the most truly naff
and despicable can never be killed off entirely. They just lie buried in
the sediment created by continuous churn-over of popular culture until
they rise or are conjured from the earth to torment some unsuspecting future
generation.
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The must-have
seventies winter warmers (even for people who'd never been near a ski slope
in their lives) make a return. And a special big welcome back to the furry
variant beloved of Wombles fans and dodgy photo-shoots. (See below)
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The
Magic Roundabout
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The mind boggles
at this - but a new animated version of MR is currently in production using
the vocal talents of Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue as Dougal and Florence.
No word as yet on who will voice Dylan (but I've already made my suggestion).
Cack To The Future |
The
Hulk
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As part of Marvel's
continuing campaign to hoist all of their major characters onto the big
screen a Hulk movie project has now reached the movie stage. Odds are though
that it'll take more inspiration from the old TV series featuring the unjolly
green giant than from the original comics.
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Jumpsuits
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Here are those
furry moonboots I warned you about, striding proudly back on to the catwalk.
And who's that they've got with them ? Yes, it's our old friend mister
jumpsuit. A big favourite with zip-lovers but not quite so popular with
those lacking full bladder control.
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Chunky
Knits
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A really flattering
look this one (not) but at least it's an egalitarian one - i.e it looks
as bad on a paper-thin supermodel as it does on your average lard-arse
Waynetta. Avoid paying designer prices by getting a hyperactive 6-year
old to knock one up using a cotton reel with four nails stuck in the top.
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Elvis
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The biggest sleeping
giant of them all. Back with his first posthumous number one single and
a chart-topping greatest hits album. Just check out the volume and triviality
of the memorabilia on Ebay for confirmation that Elvis is still the hugest
of the huge.
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Old
Skool House
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As contemporary
mainstream dance music disappears up its dreary progressive arse a thousand
compilations surf the wave of nostalgia for the fun and simplicity of early
rave & hardcore.
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The
Muppets
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Stars of the original
70's series, Kermit and Miss Piggy are to be joined by new Muppets characters
for a new prime-time TV show in the United States.It will hit screens in
the US in spring 2003 and will be shown on the Fox TV network.
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