Word: artistes
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...effect, the bond sale allows Bowie, who reportedly is worth more than $100 million, to collect his royalties up front. And by using some of the proceeds to buy out a former manager, Bowie will gain total control of his music--a rarity for an artist. With advantages like that, can Frank Sinatra Securities or Stephen King Coupons...
Students have the benefit of working with a professional set artist, costume designer, band conductor and lighting manager (who is rumored, Grandy says, to have managed lights for both Prince and Bryan Adams concerts), not to mention a director and choreographer who danced together on Broadway in "A Chorus Line...
Reading jazz pianist Keith Jarrett's comments in this week's New York Times Magazine gave me the willies. He was talking about jazz that lacked soul, but all I could think of was Harvard. On the face of it, Jarrett, a '70s jazz superstar turned classical recording artist, was giving it to Wynton Marsalis and the new crop of '80s jazz virtuosos. But Jarrett's scathing commentary on the contemporary jazz scene reads like advice to Harvard undergrads...
...good Jarrett, the usable Jarrett, is the cagey restless artist who warns us of marketing as a waste of energy. This is fine, if somewhat imprudent, advice, and we would do well to listen up. Unfortunately, there is a worthless side to the man as well, the Jarrett who counsels us to beef up our presence. In fact, this bad Jarrett comes dangerously close to contradicting his better self; after all, his presence, (and we take his grunting as evidence of it) is not all that different from self-promotion...
...theater performer, inherited the pair and built a facility on his property to house them. The scene-stealing siblings were in more than 15 Tarzan movies, and as a specialty, Westfall says, "Jiggs would always grin with his upper lip above his mouth.'' In retirement, Jiggs has become an artist--a simian Grandpa Moses--and sales of his paintings are to fund the Cheeta Project, a non-profit foundation that will aid other chimps and keep Jiggs on his daily diet of fruit, Purina Monkey Chow and the occasional Oreo as a treat. Tarzan's tree house was never like...