August 1991 Pop Culture: Guns 'N Roses, Bulletboys & Paula Abdrool

The August 1991 issue has a few pop culture topics to go deep on. Guns 'N Roses gets covered with a What Now concert review AND a review of Danny Sugerman's very pretentious-sounding book about them in the brand-new column Read It (though probably don't; it only earns one pip as the month's book bomb). Paula Abdul gets a bomb review of her new album Spellbound AND name-checked as "Paula Abdrool" in the Keanu Reeves/Alex Winter cover Q&A. Otherwise, we get a lot of material we might like more coverage on, like: Siouxsie And The Banshees' Superstition; Ethan Hawke's Mystery Date hair; Tori Spelling's 18th birthday party; and what Anne L. could not have foreseen would be an incredible revolving door of BulletBoys. You don't need an extra arm à la The Dark Backward to enjoy our commentary on all of the above and more!

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is August 1991
🎧 What Now
🎧 Read It
🎧 Watch It
🎧 Listen Up
🎧 Ones To Watch
🎧 Feature: The Bogus Interview: A Play In One Act
🎧 Goodbye For Now
🎧 And I'm Tara...

NOTES
🎂 Tori Spelling and her "Absolut Birthday" cake
🎉 More photos from Tori Spelling's 18th birthday at The Daily Mail
🌶️ Absolut Pepper magazine ad
🐴 Horace Mann School's website
🌊 "Andrew Trees: Case Of Terminated Horace Mann Teacher Still Causing Waves" at HNN
👹 "Prep-School Predators" in The New York Times Magazine
🏫 "The Master" at The New Yorker
🤷‍♂️ "Horace Mann Apologizes For Abuse But Won't Start New Inquiry" at The New York Times
🎓 "Horace Mann School Admissions Scandal" at Ivy Coach
💵 "Elite NYC Prep School Horace Mann Accused Of Letting Tech Honcho Buy Kids' Admission For #1M: Lawsuit" at the New York Post
🔬 Gina Rodriguez's "mama lets research" tweet on Twitter
📖 The Big Takeover magazine
🛹 Blind Skateboards Video Days on YouTube
🗡️ Gladiator (1992) on The Roku Channel
🎸 Metal-Rules's review of Danny Sugerman's Appetite For Destruction
👩‍❤️‍👨 Mystery Date on Hoopla
⏪ The Dark Backward on YouTube
⭐️ Brenda Starr on The Roku Channel
🏃‍♀️ Paula Abdul's "Rush Rush" video on YouTube
🥁 BulletBoys on Wikipedia
🎙️ "BulletBoys' Marq Torien And Mick Sweda Discuss Original Lineup Reunion And More" on YouTube
📺 "The Idiot Box, Episode 1" on YouTube
📺 "The Idiot Box, Episode 2" on YouTube
⏳ "Waiting For Godot Review - Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter's Unlikely Reunion" at The Guardian
🔥 Extra Hot Great 601