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mimv i SMASH HITS It FUNKY LOVE the release irV-V on his new SMjyie runry Love we asked planet '1 pop cutie HAPPY St Valentine's Day groovers! We've been bitten by the love bug so there's heaps of love-ly goss for February. Kavana how he knows when he's i really for the lurve SCOTT thing. FIVE ON "You know, when you ALICIA can't sleep, you can't eat Smash Hits has St Valentine's Day postcards, hot Five photos and posters of the most babe-licious boys in Hollywood in our special boy issue. DONNA ARMSTRONG STARS IN LOVELAND! This is probably the one and only month of the year when its acceptable to quiz the stars on their love life. So that exactly what we did.

These stories even made us blush. CLAIRE DANES ON LEO THE TITANIC HThere was definitely a I spark between Leonardo DiCaprio and me in Romeo and Juliet but I don't think either of us really knew how to handle it. "So we ignored each other. It was too big for us to accept. "We shot the morning-after scene the very first day and that made us both nervous.

"Leo was squirming all over the place." JAMES VAN DER BEEK ON NATALIE IMBRUGLIA "My dream girl would be smart, talented and fun. I'd love to meet Natalie Imbruglia. She's got great eyes and she's talented." MINNIE DRIVER ON MAKING OUT WITH MATT ll A fhen I was making VV Goodwill Hunting and all you want to do is think about that one individual," said the pop prince. "But the build-up to the whole relationship thing is often SILVERSTONE I like people like Alicia Isilverstone. I like girls with mousey or blonde hair and blue eyes." I WANT YOU BACK Popular Florida fellas NSync have been making such a huge name for themselves in America we knew it wouldn't more exciting." WIN -V A Ff ill your heart with Funky Love! To celebrate St Valentine's Day today, Smash Hits and EMI be long before they found a place in our Top 10.

Their first single, Want You Back, is going off and the next single Tearin' Up My Heart is due out in are giving 50 loving Super Scene readers the chance to win a copy of Kavana's new single, Funky Love. Just tell us in 25 words or less what funky love means to you. Send entries to Super Scene, Box 4020 GPO, Sydney 2001, with your name and address by February 24. LOVE IT! Speaking of Love, Party Of Five's Jennifer Love Hewitt is racing up the charts this with Matt Damon, I got really into it. week with her hit song How Do I Deal off the The deeply emotional stuff Si and sexy scenes can soundtrack to her latest freaky flick Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

Hewitt says March. While the fab five Justin, Joey, JC. Chris and Lance, all share the same good-looking charm. Chris says "fine girls" actually make him blush. And as for meeting ladies, Joey confesses the key is dance class.

"In drama class there was a bunch of guys and in choir there was a bunch of guys but in dance there were only two or three. "The other guys would be like, 'How do you talk to all these girls'? "I was like, 'Man go to dance class!" really take hold of you. I think Matt and I got involved in an off-screen relationship At the best thing about music is "being on stage because there was all this and looking down emotional feeling in and seeing a smne on our acting that crossed over into our real lives." somebody's What a schweetie! Happy V-day Jen. Sneaky! EXCELLENT! HMMMM NOPE PRETTY COOL Game of the Year (University Games) irloa nf Ihic namo ic in rzra arnunH tho I Doara naving me lime oi your me. oouno fun? It is especially if played in a larger group (it's for two to six players).

Along the way, you learn about famous dates A NSync (BMG) This is the first album from these five guys -recent "Best New Artist" winners at the American Music Awards. Produced by some big names, including Dancemeister Denniz Pop (Ace of Base, 3T, Robyn), the self-titled album has already sold more than five million copies worldwide and delivered two huge hits: Want You Back, which went top 10 on the US Billboard singles charts, and Tearin' Up My in history as well as the other players' habits, likes, dislikes and personal as. fa appearances. It's for ages 8 and up and costs from S39.95 to S44.95, through most major toy and department stores. A great game for the last year of the millennium.

Very good. Heart, one of the most played songs on US radio. If you're into top 40 boy-pop stuff and there's a lot around at the moment you'll enjoy this. 3 tljc i i I an The Dream Dragon by Yvonne Winer (Margaret Hamilton Books S22.95) Written like a folktale and richly illustrated by Stanley Wong, this book is a must for all lovers of beautiful language and illustrations. It has an intriguing story-line.

Set in a Asian village, where a friendly dragon protects inhabitants, it tells a uniaue tale of culture Animorphs by KA Applegate (Scholastic) A few months ago we gave this series of 20-plus quirky children's books a real bagging. But it seems we were slightly off the mark. You guys have spoken and the truck loads of mail we have received show that the unusual stories, about teenagers who can change into animals to battle with aliens, are very popular. So we've had another browse and discovered we were probably a little tough. They are witty, creative and fun, and and communitv wnrkinn tnoether and if sci-fi is your thing, you'll definitely get a kick out of them.

dreaming. TH SUN-HERALD SUPER SCENE www.sunherald.com.au February 14, 1999 3.