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Show SEQION -- luO-l- JiiUiij UiiJi MONDAY. DECEMBER 10, 2007 l EDITOR I Elyssa Andrus eandrusheraldextra.com 344-255- 3 At long last, love for Led Y ( K Zeppelin Ann Powers LOS ANGELES TIMES When I was in high school, I hated Led Zeppelin. I was a punk. I was in love with the oddball artsiness of the underground To me, d those beasts in Zeppelin, with their extended guitar solos and songs about devil women, were really very old hat. Stoner music, yuk. In college, I took up women's studies and hated Led Zeppelin even more. The heavy sound that Zep originated by then had mutated into hair metal, which I enjoyed for its shiny, plastic similarities to New Wave but which also turned the grandiosity of Zep's romanticism into a Twisted Sister cartoon. And, of course, Zep was a particular bugaboo for feminists, put off not only by the strutting machismo of songs like "Whole Lotta Love " but also by the infamous offstage "antics" that could be labeled groupie fashion-damage- late-197- long-haire- fairy-godde- Photos Scientist Dixie Shurland worfes in the lab at Allergan eye care and Alzheimer's, among other markets. if u In the 1980s, the wheel of pop was, as always, turning. The arena-who never had stopped loving the band soon found new company in the indie musicians of the Pacific Northwest. Those bands Soundgarden, in particular created a new hard rock that somehow reconciled punk's virtuousness with metal's florid virtuosity. In the meantime, metal itself was going underground; with Metallica leading the transformation; it eventually would become art rock again. Around the same time, I found myself going through a surprisgoers IV ' XL-- UaJ . '' ' it J n Ui IJ i t :f r- h t, ' Lisa Girion LOS ANGELES TIMES ing Led Zeppelin phase. At 24, I was already feeling jaded (ah, youth!) and in need of something to rejigger my musical libido. My ' roommate Anne and I became hooked on a local band called the Ophelias, which played psychedelic rock with a shriek and a wink. Highly unsophisticated record collectors, we followed the Ophelias's trail not toward groovy obscurities like the Soft Machine or even early Pink Floyd but right to the Zep albums that were so easy to d find in the bins. We would put aside our raised consciousness long enough to rock out to "Kashmir," loving the illogic of filling our household with the sound of Robert Plant's priapic wails and Jimmy Page's conquering guitar solos. We were going back to a time we never actually had wanted to be a part of and that actually existed only in fantasy worlds like the one Zep's music created. There, the myth of free love hadn't yet been deflated by women pointing out that, while their n his corner office, Mr. Botox looked his age. He hadn t had a shot ot botulinum toxin in a while, and the furrow between his ..brows was back. "You would never know I'm really 75 years n old," David E.I. Pyott said, trotting out a joke that he likes to make "because of who I am." g He's the man who made a poison the most fashionable weapon against aging. And he's really 54. When Allergan Inc. hired him as chief executive in 1998, it was generating annual revenue of $ 1.26 billion turning out nasal sprays, eyedrops and optical devices. It still makes eyedrops but otherwise doesn't much look like the company founded in an Irvine bean patch 60 years ago. Now it's a $3Mlion corporation with global well-wor- muscle-controllin- used-recor- J -- - proto-girl-pow- ZEPPELIN, ii 7t r musine ss of Botox no-fril-ls See Angeles Times (r ,L. - The abuse. BOSTERLos by MARK in Irvine, Calif. The company pours substantial resources into developing products for 4.1 1 I - f 100 Botox is AHergan's top line in annual sales. rights to the pharmaceutical industry's first beauty blockbuster and a business plan based on battling glaucoma, wrinkles, obesity and incontinence written to fit an increasingly overweight nation packed with baby boomers. Beyond that, Allergan has a development pipeline stuffed with potential remedies for a range of problems facing aging adults, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. The company plows so much money into research that a few shareholders have complained. Only a few, though. Revenue was up 34 per' cent last year; this year, as sales of Botox and most of its other products exceed forecasts, Allergan expects a 23 percent rise to $3.7 billion. Net income in the second quarter increased more than 40 percent. "People have knocked them a little bit for spending so much" on R&D, said Gary Nach-maan analyst with Leerink Swann in New York. "But that's part of the genius." As is Allergan's Botox promotion machine, according to doctors. It stokes demand with television and magazine advertisements that share a lot with pitches for lipstick and hair color. They encourage physicians to view Botox as a "gateway drug," one that might lead patients to demand other beauty treatments, such as Allergan's Juvederm wrinkle filler, down the line. The company makes life easier for its "platinum physicians," high-volum- Botox buyers, with a e quick-answ- er telephone line to order refills and gives free advice to doctors who ask how to better run their practices. "They are an intelligent company," said Tracy Hank ins, a Las Vegas plastic surgeon with one of the country's biggest Botox practices. "They think things through." The company has six research centers, including one that opened in Bangalore, India, in August. At the company's headquarters e in Irvine, R&D is in a complex of airy and 28-ac- art-Se- BOTOX, D2 D2 Can a painting create music? An experiment in painting and music ") pushesDOundaries SI Sara Rose THE ASSOCIATED PRESS : NEW YORK Artist Makoto slowly crouches then moves high or so onto the paper and a new sound trumpets. As brush and body seem to dance, a song emerges. From his grand piano, Jerzy plays a counterpart and "Painted Music" takes shape. Premiering at the Dillon Gallery in Chelsea this fall, "Painted Music" e is a exploration into "how we hear color and art," says gallery owner Valerie Dillon. Composer Sapieyevski has long real-tim- it ra in stocking feet over a paper canvas spread across the floor. He shifts his leg in front of a small black box and a rumble fills the room. He swivels again and the tone changes. Then he lowers a paintbrush that's ot I 1 Julia Nason L Jennifer Stanislaskl Artist Makoto Fujimura left and pianist Jerry Sapieyevski will be premiering in an artistic collaboration together at the Dillon Gallery in New York this fall, in a performance titled "Painted Music," seen the potential in combining emerging technologies with music. While the technology used in "Painted Music" may not be new, its application is intriguing. Painting and music are natural companions. Earlier this fall, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra enlisted two artists to stand with the orchestra and create paintings to complement the music, and Italian musician Giovanni Maria Pala recently claimed to have discovered a musical composition hidden in Leonardo's "Last Supper." Wassily Kandinsky famously wanted his splashes of cplor and line to be "heard." Paul Klee, an accomplished musician, applied the themes and theo ries of music to his art. Building on this history, Sapieyevski created a motion sensor box that is mounted above the artist's canvas. Each space on and around the canvas corresponds to notes and styles preprogrammed by Sapieyevski So when the artist moves his or her hand, every motion creates a sound. The artist doesn't create the sounds, Sapieyevski says, "I give him the notes." But the artist creates a spontaneous composition out of those notes on the canvas. The pianist composes a response, to which the painter reacts, and the process goes back and forth. The idea is a true dialogue: The look of the painting depends on the musician's playing, just as the musician's composition depends on the look of the painting. This is a somewhat risky position for an artist. In a medium based on solitude and control, an unscripted collaboration in front of an audience takes away all the safety nets. Luckily, Sapieyevski found a willing spirit in Fujimura, a master of See ART, D2 fe. It urn it? 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