BANFF -- My tiny assistant won't give her sailor hat up for just anyone, but she practically whips it at Fatboy Slim. "I like your hat," the U.K. DJ smiles in his ultra-swank interview attic, spot of the promised one-on-one in the Banff Springs Hotel. He grabs the cap. "But I think it'll make me look gay.
"Yep. I told you so. I look gay," the thin funk soul brother laughs, posing in the mirror. This gets a chuckle from the half-dozen managers, handlers, label people and beer company onlookers in the room (so much for one-on-one). But it's no wonder they're around: This man, who essentially tinkers with other people's music for a living, is worth a great deal of money to them. His world is the new hope built on the old.
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