Questions for the Zeitgeist- May 15, 2006

1- Aren't Seal and Heidi Klum becoming serious contenders for the title of "hippest hottest jetset couple"? Watch out, Brangelina...

2- With the New York Radio station HOT 97 shootings (some say "SHOT 97", thanks to Lil Kim, 50 and The Game, Gravy, etc.), and T.I.'s personal assistant being killed in Cincinnati- was the Biggie/Tupac beef just the template for what's to come?


3- A 14-pound "preemie" stuns doctors in Cali. Junior high school boys are sporting full-on beards and goatees. 11 year-old girls are menstruating; Darwinian selection, or way too much Polysorbate 80 in our snacks and recombinant bovine somatotropin in our "pasteurized, homogenized, Vitamin D" milk?

4- How FLY and creative is gender-bending Electroclash group Dirty Sanchez?


5- Is Mackenzie Phillips STILL sober? And for that matter, is Scott Weiland? What about Stockard Channing? Is D'Angelo over the hump yet?



6- She burst on the scene in '96 with the theme to Dawson's Creek ("I Don't Wanna Wait"), and "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?". The REAL question is, where has Paula Cole gone?





7- With the fading celebrity of Paris Hilton (barring, of course, another porn tape or publicity stunt!), aren't we glad that Margherita Missoni, heir-apparent to the Missoni fashion/textile empire, is returning the "it girl" status quo to someone with SUBSTANCE? And while we're on the "it girls with substance" tip, is swank party fixture/glamourpuss Genevieve Jones (in addition to being The Real Re-edit's current obsession), the new Nicole Richie?