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...blame them? No, the backbeat to the current clamor is the sound of the British record industry catching up to a band that for once didn't come looking for them. Franz Ferdinand came together around the Glasgow School of Art. (Indeed, drummer Paul Thomson, a former artist's model, has the curious distinction of having been painted in the nude by the girlfriends of all his future band mates.) And their first gig was in a bedroom as part of a friend's exhibition, "Girl Art," where their objective was to make girls dance. But don't call them...
...July 4, 1981, two giants of tennis played a watershed match. The introverted Swede Bj?rn Borg, trying to win Wimbledon for a sixth straight time, met the volatile American John McEnroe in the final. Their playing styles were as different as their temperaments: Borg was a machine, McEnroe an artist. When the challenger prevailed, it was clear to all observers that he was now the world's best. Borg certainly knew it - only 25, he quit the game soon afterward...
...shouldered and balding--but he gives a performance that goes beyond mere impersonation. He infuses this cranky character with some of his own sweet tentativeness of spirit, giving Pekar an audience appeal that perhaps the more churlish original lacks. And he gives himself a problem. A self-confessed "escape artist," a master of submerging self in role, Giamatti is currently trying to escape the acclaim being heaped on him and his movie. Sorry, Paul, you've finally been found out--as one of the movies' best character actors...
...purchased a Martha Stewart product or heard of the biotech firm ImClone. The fate of the domestic diva, who faces charges stemming from her sale of 3,928 ImClone shares shortly before the stock price plummeted in 2001, hinges on whether the jury sees her as a cover-up artist or as a victim of overzealous prosecutors. The good news for Stewart, who faces up to 30 years in prison, is that a recent survey indicates the public's anger at white-collar criminals has abated over the past two years. But studies also show many jurors make up their...
...seen the movie, but where do you go if you want to see the original The Girl with a Pearl Earring, the Johannes Vermeer painting that inspired both? Art enthusiasts can go to www.cacr.caltech.edu/~roy/vermeer where Caltech professor Roy Williams has gathered a wealth of information about the artist, including a clickable map of the worldwide locations of all 34 viewable Vermeer paintings. To see The Girl with a Pearl Earring, you will have to travel to the Netherlands. --By Lisa McLaughlin