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Wow—is it getting weird here! I just turned on the telly to catch new-model Phil Oakey’s U.K. preem of the Human League’s “The Lebanon.” Two colleagues present at the Drury Lane Theatre during yesterday’s video-making of same reported things were being played super-straight (aka dull) “because they seem to think it’s controversial.” Something should be controversial when a lurvely young blonde obviously trying to shed a skin-tight, slit-to-the navel fake leather sheath dress stamps in her stilettoes and moans, “She dreams of 1969, before the soldiers came,” on MY TV screen.