#may 1998

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-Select Magazine, May 1998

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Laetitia Casta for Elle US, May 1998

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#falilv #Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas #NY #New York City #premiere #May 1998 #Hunter S Thompson #Terry Gilliam #Benicio Del Toro & #Jann Wenner publisher of #Rollong Stone

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5/12/98 - the spice girls appear on french tv show hit machine.

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* Thanks to Jessie Gould (May '98)

Article 4: Thanks to Jessie Gould

Fantomas Side Project Takes Center Stage

Band unites members of Faith No More, Slayer, the Melvins and Mr. Bungle.

Two weeks before Fantomas are scheduled to play their first show as a band, guitarist Buzz Osborne said he thinks the album's worth of material that the quartet has assembled is primed to sail right over the heads of average radio listeners.

Those who may not get the Fantomas' message, Osborne guesses, include fans of Faith No More, whose singer, Mike Patton, happens to be one of the members of Fantomas.

"This is about as far removed as you could get from Faith No More," Osborne said of the songs that Fantomas will debut June 18 at Slim's in San Francisco. "I think people that were into that band probably won't be into this at all. It's really quite atmospheric and manic. It's probably too well-thought-out for the general public to get. Most people who buy records are stupid and this will go right over their heads. I think Mike's done a really good job crafting the stuff. The average mullethead redneck won't get this at all."

Osborne, singer/guitarist of sludge-core act the Melvins, said Fantomas -- whose other members are Mr. Bungle bassist Trevor Dunn and ex-Slayer skinsman Dave Lombardo -- have pulled together a good variety of tunes.

"It runs the gamut. There's stuff that's, like, fast, thrashy stuff, along with some really atmospheric, spooky kind-of stuff," Osborne said. "Mike can do a lot of amazing things with his voice. There's everything from hard-core screaming to sort-of operatic singing -- which I don't know how he'll take but certainly is a compliment."

Greg Werckman, the nascent foursome's manager, said the project grew from tapes recorded by Patton.

"Mike came up with this idea. He did the tape himself with certain players in mind," Werckman said. "He picked all his favorite musicians -- it was like him putting together his own all-star band. He made a tape of himself playing and impersonating those guys, he sent it to everybody and there it was."

Osborne said Patton has maintained a clear vision for the project from the start, the music for which he described as being the equivalent of a soundtrack to a comic book.

"This stuff, there's no regular verse-chorus-verse songwriting that the basic stupid heavy-metal mind is always looking for," Osborne said. "There were no rules in mind. [Patton] used a comic book as a guideline and read along with the comic book and then decided how the music would go along with it."

Fans such as Nick Chester, who runs FNM, a Faith No More website, are anxious to the point of obsession to hear the super side-project live.

"As always, when it comes to Patton/Bungle projects, I'm very excited to hear what the group sounds like live," Chester said. "Without even having heard their sound, I'm planning on attending all four shows in New York City, based on the band's lineup alone."

In a perverse display of futility, Osborne expressed a desire to perform at an upcoming radio-station-organized festival before audiences doomed to not understand what's being played.

"I cannot wait to play this kind of stuff with a bunch of these totally retarded radio bands akin to No Doubt, " Osborne said. "I can't wait to play this stuff alongside bands like that, especially to play to stupid morons that go to those blow-job radio shows. There's no way these retards that run the radio stations will ever play this. They're far too stupid to get anything like this. It's bad-news music. It's gonna be fun to blow a bunch of those pancake idiots out of the water."

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Johnny, through the lens of Arnaud Baumann, 23 years ago, on this day (May 14), during the 51st Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes, France.

On that day, Johnny, Benicio Del Toro  and the director Terry Gilliam attended the event in order to present "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" which was competing for the Palme d'Or.

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Cosmopolitan US May 1998 A Splash of Color Gisele Bündchen in an orange tube top and string bikini by Anne Cole Photography by Patrick Demarchelier Styling by Enna Halie Hair by Richard Keogh Make-up by Richard Keogh