
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 8, 1994                   TAG: 9404080204
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: WENDI GIBSON RICHERT
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

TALKING TO TEENS

If you're a teen-ager, you may have wondered how to make your grades better, what your favorite singer thinks about, and how those butterflies get in your stomach whenever that too-cool dude/gal strolls by your locker.

If so, the spring premiere issue of Mouth 2 Mouth is for you. Inside its glossy full-color pages are interviews with superstars of the screen, MTV and the land of the weird.

The whole rag is confusing at first glance, but if you can make it through the table of contents - a flow chart of catch phrases and pictures on an eyesore of a background - you'll have no trouble muddling through what's inside. Especially if you're into David Letterman's Top Ten, Dead Guys of the Month, Grade Juicers (that ``do for your grades what steroids do for your muscles'') or ``Beverly Hills 90210.''

Mouth pitches itself as a magazine that ``that isn't ridiculously condescending and old-fashioned, or one note of boring.''

No ``back-to-school plaid'' features here. What you do get are ``Ten Ways Guaranteed to Get You Backstage,'' ``How to Spot Fake Breasts,'' ``How to Recognize the Serial Killer in Your Homeroom,'' an interview from Amy Fisher's prison cell and an interview with Cindy Crawford and Shaquille O'Neal, together.

Definitely not Teen magazine.

For subscription information, write to P.O. Box 52840, Boulder, Col. 80323-2840.

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