- A group of wealthy Los Angeles teenagers try to become part of the "gangsta" lifestyle but soon run into trouble when they come face to face with a real gang of Latino drug dealers.Running Time: 92 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â DRAMA Rating:Â NR Age:Â 794043843228 UPC:Â 794043843228 Manufacturer No:Â N8432
Playboy Magazine April 2000 Table of Contents COVER STORY HOT MAMA: Reformed bad girl Bijou Phillips (daughter of the Mamas and the Papas' John Phillips) talks about her obsession with stripping ("I love going to strip clubs-the adrenaline rush you get is amazing"), worship of Madonna ("She's the Queen Elizabeth of the music kingdom") and her next album. You'll be happy looking at her pictures, too. FEATURES 84 BIG BIZNESS From Woodstock to MTV Limp Bizkit caused this year's biggest commotion. In a straight-up conversation, lead Bizkit Fred Durst says he writes songs about what hurts him. Or used to. He's seen too many VH I Behind the Music episodes to become a rock-and-roll casualty. BY ALISON LUNDGREN 114 20Q BARRY WHITE He wasn't always the gangster of love-in fact, at one time he was just a gangster. And a paper boy. He learned a lot along the way, though-like, watch what you say to a white woman in Alabama. BY JULIE BAIN 124 THE YEAR IN MUSIC Ricky Martin, Mariah Carey and Dixie Chicks. What can we say? PLAYBOY readers are on top of things. INTERVIEW 59 ROWLAND EVANS AND ROBERT NOVAK PICTORIALS 74 SPRING BREAK 2000 College girls do crazy things when they emerge from dimly lit lecture halls. We went to check out the student body. 98 PLAYMATE: BRANDE Brande Roderick grew up in grape country-Sonoma-and her spirits are definitely distilled. Hef, the ultimate connoisseur, rates her VSOP 132 BIJOU Bijou Phillips is the diamond and the rough. She's a hard-core party girl who was living the rock-and-roll lifestyle long before her acclaimed album came out. NOTES AND NEWS 167 PLAYMATE NEWS The millennium twins get down at the Mansion; Lisa Dergan update; Club Lingerie. LIFESTYLE 32 VIDEO The films of Brigitte Bardot; Debra Messing of Will and Grace lists her all-time faves (think Dustin Hoffman in drag and Sigourney Weaver in skivvies).When things get tough for Carys Reitman (Bijou Phillips) she goes to strangers' funerals to unwind. But after a funeral service mix-up, Carys unexpectedly finds herself in possession of a dead woman’s engagement ring and in love with the grieving fiancé (Ian Somerholder). Also starring Jane Seymour and Danny Masterson.If she is very, very lucky, the first album by Papa John Phillips's
other singing daughter will be remembered as a camp classic, the ultimate document of the 1990s' veneration of supermodel/hellions. Backed by bland, anonymous alternawhatever, with the occasional piano ballad thrown in, she spends the entire disc attempting to emote like Alanis--
exactly like Alanis. It doesn't work: Bijou's vocal tone is even thinner than she is, and though every song but the one she wrote at 13 has been buffed u! p by tune doctors, the lyrics stumble from one howler to another ("You joker, you soaker / She's sleeping with your chauffeur"). A collaboration with Luscious Jackson's Jill Cunniff has a sweet, sunny vibe, but there's not much else but novelty value to recommend this.
--Douglas WolkA group of wealthy Los Angeles teenagers try to become part of the "gangsta" lifestyle but soon run into trouble when they come face to face with a real gang of Latino drug dealers.After making her name in
The Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway takes a radical detour with this edgy independent drama. As Allie, a wealthy gangsta wannabe, she makes no excuses for her delinquent behavior: "We're just teenagers and we're bored." When her Pacific Palisades posse, including pal Emily (
Bully's Bijou Phillips), starts hanging out with a Latino gang (including
Six Feet Under's Freddy RodrÃguez), they learn what thug life is really about. Hathaway couldn't be more game: She swear! s, she fights--she disrobes (several times). Written and direc! ted by O scar winners Stephen Gaghan (
Traffic) and Barbara Kopple (
American Dream),
Havoc plays like a B movie, in the vein of the superior
crazy/beautiful, and was released straight to video. For Hathaway fans, it's a chance to see this young talent in a
very different light, but for Gaghan and Kopple followers, this lurid morality tale is sure to come as a letdown.
--Kathleen C. Fennessy
