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Defying most predictions for an actor-singer's recording effort, Jamie Foxx's new album, Unpredictable, hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart...
...direct-to-video dramas (seven!) to make Catherine Keener seem a slugabed. But as a kid, passed from mother to father to great-grandmother, he learned the hard way about salesmanship. He conned his way into a small part on The Cosby Show by inventing a résumé. An actor has to hustle himself to get into the flow. "It's up to every performer to buy the stage," he says. "And if you've got to pay the first audience to get in there, do it. Have a buffet for 'em. And the moment they get in there...
...that Hollywood is buying, the actor has leveraged his success by starting a production company and writing a script for a musical drama he would star in. "My stock just went up," he says. "I can sell it right away and make a little profit, or I can hold on to it. I believe in this company, so I'm not trading...
...pieces can reduce the severity and frequency of epileptic seizures in some patients, while researchers in Irvine, California, have found that some people with Alzheimer's are better able to perform mental tests after listening to Mozart for 10 minutes. But much of the supporting material is anecdotal. French actor Gérard Depardieu says Mozart helped to cure his childhood stutter. Eliad, the painter, received her treatment at an institute founded by a Paris physician named Alfred Tomatis, who pioneered the use of Mozart's music to treat all sorts of childhood disorders as well as adult ailments including...
DIED. MICHAEL VALE, 83, mustached actor who endeared himself to millions of TV viewers--and helped make Dunkin' Donuts a major brand--as the diminutive, sleepy Fred the Baker, with the trademark line "Time to make the doughnuts," in commercials for 15 years; in New York City...