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...Prince missed accepting his Best Original Song award because...
Kaysen has also attracted impressive mentors, including Daniel Boulud, the award-winning French chef who owns restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas and Palm Beach, Fla., and Charlie Trotter, the famed Chicago chef who has been a Bocuse judge. Both have high hopes for their protégé. "Gavin has the passion for French cuisine, a very good palate, and he's a master of technique and timing," says Boulud. "And he's very meticulous and detail oriented, which is crucial." Trotter, who has been following Kaysen's career since the younger chef applied for an internship in his kitchen...
When the Rhodes committee in Zimbabwe awarded Benjamin L. Robinson ’06-’07 a Rhodes Scholarship last month, he became the eighth Harvard student this year to receive the prestigious academic award. The Rhodes Scholarship, created from the endowment of Cecil J. Rhodes, a British philanthropist who earned much of his fortune through colonial activities in Africa, provides Scholars with funding for two to three years of study at Oxford University in England. Robinson, a joint Social Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures concentrator, plans to study Philosophy at Oxford, even though he says that...
...World War II drama Letters From Iwo Jima, veteran Globesman Clint Eastwood traded gravitas for a groovy toss-back to a newcomer's speech earlier in the show. "You don't know what this does for my confidence," American Idol runner-up Jennifer Hudson said when she collected an award for her performance in Dreamgirls at the top of the show. When Eastwood repeated Hudson's line, it was with a wink. But no matter. Dirty Harry quoting an Idol runner-up is a sure sign of the apocalypse...
...speech accepting an award for the very commercial The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep urged audiences to ask their local theater owners for more independent films, like Volver. After accepting a Globe for his NBC show 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin praised an indie he had no part of, Half Nelson, backstage. The only person to stand up for big-budget multiplex-seat-filling films was Ben Stiller, who plugged his blockbuster Christmas movie Night at the Museum. Thank God someone remembered what this night is all about...