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...billboard on the theater in New York City reads: A R RAHMAN'S BOMBAY DREAMS. The locals may scoff. A R Who? He's a Broadway composer? He is now, and musical theater has rarely been so lucky. The most geriatric genre of American culture is getting a transfusion of world music. And when Rahman makes that music, it's truly world-class...
...said she got one on the way," the hip-hop heartthrob croons on the CD. Usher's publicist insists there is no baby and denies speculation that the controversy was hatched to whip up publicity. Stunt or not, Usher is expected to deliver Confessions to No. 1 on the Billboard chart this week. We're sure he's a proud papa...
...puerile and insensitive approach to human tragedy and sickness. Last year, Newkirk wrote a letter to Yassir Arafat expressing her outrage that a donkey was used in a suicide bombing—a plea to “leave animals out of this conflict.” In a billboard suggesting that milk causes cancer, former New York City Mayor Rudi Giuliani (then ailing from prostate cancer) was depicted with a milk moustache next to the bolded words, “Got Milk?” And during the first Mad Cow scare, a PETA executive mused that America?...
Hornby’s definition of pop is broad enough to include Bob Dylan as well as Nelly Furtado. He has little time for snobbishness, though in a piece previously published in The New Yorker he surveys the Billboard Top Ten albums with a mixture of bewilderment, distaste and humor...
Walking by Cob Carlson’s house-cum-billboard you notice two things. One, Carlson has no time or space for further Harvard development. Two, the riled Cantabrigian is probably sitting on a property that has appreciated faster than Pets.com in 1998. For a man who has lived a stone’s throw from Leverett House for some time, he is surprisingly uncomfortable with Harvard and its community. Indeed, this Cob Carlson even had his own plan to severely restrict the extent and density of Harvard development—the aptly-named Carlson petition. But what his signs...