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...Before the fact, the critics had guessed. And, mostly, the critics were wrong. Leave it to Tarantino and his Riviera Band Apart to offer prizes that surprised, delighted and outraged...
...Zhang has been considerably luckier: she's a member of the 12 Girls Band, a group of young ladies whose enthusiastic renditions of musical chestnuts on traditional Chinese instruments have become a sensation outside their homeland. Their first overseas album, Beautiful Energy, has sold more than 2 million CDs in Japan and hundreds of thousands more across Asia since last summer. A 32-date Japan tour last month sold out in 10 minutes, and a follow-up album, Shining Energy, has gone platinum since its release in March. "They're outselling the biggest Japanese stars," says Rei Miyazaki, an editor...
...Still, the network had to fill its presentation with something, and CBS spent much of its time trashing the competition. It started with a Beatles tribute band playing tunes like the following, referring to NBC president Jeff Zucker, who made a statement last year apologizing for the quality of some of his own shows...
...that the board and shareholders were dissatisfied with the company's performance. An interim chief, Max Dietrich Kley, now runs the company. A revolt by French shareholders led to the ousting of Eurotunnel's chief executive, Richard Shirrefs, and its board. Former travel executive Jacques Maillot leads the motley band of characters trying to keep Eurotunnel, an absolute money pit, out of bankruptcy...
...love is his unkickable football. "Maybe it's being gay," says Merritt, "but for me, everything related to love is so awkward, it's automatically funny. Just the idea of love is embarrassing to me. It's the equivalent of singing in the street." In 1999 Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields released 69 Love Songs, a spectacular three-CD, genre-spanning survey that included titles like Absolutely Cuckoo and (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy. The Magnetic Fields' new album, I (all the songs begin with the word or letter I), out May 4, has 14 more...