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Thursday 11—Thursday 2—5 May 2000
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10 ANGUS FARQUHAR
We go over the hills with nva as it continues to test the boundaries of art.
17 SOFIA OOPPOLA
She’s probably not a virgin and she definitely hasn’t committed suicide. But Francis Ford’s little girl has made a film aboutbodt
18 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
The latest instalment in the Glasgow popsters’ coy story is being press ganged en masse.
2O WILLIAM BURROUGHS
Dead write or dead Beat? Read all about the ScotLit verdict on King Billy.
22 SCOTLAND SOLD SHORT?
A US DJ has taken us for a ride with his backstage demands. Is it the only area
where Scottish audiences are getting a raw deal?
25 OANNES
It’s not all sex, sand and cinema as we go behind the scenes at the world’s biggest film festival.
26 JAMES ROBERTSON
The author of The Fanatic on the ghost town that is Edinburgh.
PLUS
Phil Kay shall never a Twain meet (8)
Scott Hicks takes a Shine to h:s new film (28) Simon Donald on his life so far (29)
Yo La Tengo lead a merry dance (48) Greed is bad in Ben Elton’s Gaspi‘ng (67) Syntax get it right (76)
Alasdair Gray on foreword thinking (110) Bidis‘ha goes gun (ra/y (110)
The Queen lives but sitcoms are dead (116) The mugs do work as coffee culture explodes (120)
T-shirts in the park With Stylelist (118) John Fardell takes a hike (128)
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