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Anybody who rises to the ranks of a Hollywood superstar clearly has an angel on his shoulder. Anyone who walks away from a car crash like the one Shia LaBeouf was in this past July is lucky to be alive. Now, it seems, fortune has once again smiled upon the "Eagle Eye" star.TMZ is reporting that the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has decided to drop LaBeouf’s driving-under-the-influence charge on the grounds of insufficient evidence. The actor, who recently referred to the accident as "one of the biggest things that’s happened in my life," is still dealing with a seriously injured left hand.
But perhaps his luck isn’t running as hot as some might think. LaBeouf still faces a California DMV hearing Friday, during which he’ll most likely have his driver’s license suspended as a result of refusing a blood-alcohol test the night of the accident. According to the state’s Web site: "A first offense will result in a one-year suspension."
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As both a member of *NSYNC and a solo artist, Southern superstar Justin Timberlake has played a major role in the teen pop explosion of the ’90s and 2000s. Like similar teen pop favorites — who have included the Backstreet Boys, C-Note, Christina Aguilera, Hanson, the Spice Girls, and Britney Spears — Timberlake usually doesn’t get much respect from rock critics (who, in many cases, tend to be very alternative-minded and anti-commercialistic). Regardless, he is adored by millions of fans, many of whom have been adolescent girls. Over the years, the teen market has had a lot of different sounds. In the ’70s, for example, artists like Donny Osmond, the Partridge Family, David Cassidy, and the DeFranco Family were aimed at teens — those were the bubblegum popsters one typically read about in Tiger Beat magazine back then. But Timberlake is part of the more modern school of teen pop, which is mindful of dance-pop, urban contemporary, and hip-hop and got started with the rise of New Kids on the Block, Debbie Gibson, and Tiffany in the late ’80s. New Kids, in fact, were the male group that paved the way for *NSYNC as well as the Backstreet Boys and Take That (who were meant to be a British equivalent of New Kids). And just as Tiger Beat (the bible of bubblegum) was obsessed with the New Kids in the late ’80s, it would become equally obsessed with *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys in the ’90s.RANDY MEEK HOMES
EAST SIDE LUMBER IN AUSTIN: Though the title of Debut implied that it was Björk’s first-ever solo project, she had actually been a professional vocalist since she was a child. When she was in elementary school in Reykjavik, she studied classical piano and, eventually, her teachers submitted a tape of her singing Tina Charles’ "I Love to Love" to Iceland’s Radio One. After "I Love to Love" was aired, a record label called Falkkin offered Björk a record contract. At the age of 11, her eponymous first album was released; the record contained covers of several pop songs, including the Beatles’ "Fool on the Hill," and boasted artwork from her mother and guitar work from her stepfather. Björk became a hit within Iceland and was not released in any other country.
