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Lewis the solo movie star quickly found a comedy mentor: Frank Tashlin, whom Jer will surely thank tonight. A writer-director who had worked on some of the best wartime Warner Bros. animated shorts, Tashlin made his mark in feature films by turning such pliable stars as Bob Hope and Jayne Mansfield into, essentially, cartoon characters. Lewis, already rubberized, was the ideal clay for Tashlin to mold, stretch and cheerfully mutilate; he directed two Martin-and-Lewis comedies, six more just with Jer, Geisha Boy and Cinderfella being the ones fizziest with anarchic ideas...
Following a heady spin on the new 36-capsule Wheel of Perth observation ride, a visitor to Western Australia's capital city needs a really good bed to stop those wheels turning. Megastars Sting, Bob Dylan, Christina Aguilera and Pink found theirs at the Richardson Hotel & Spa, as have scores of affluent travelers and executive types. Sure, far-flung Perth isn't exactly overrun with choice when it comes to luxury boutique hotels, but the Richardson's latest award - the Australian newspaper named it "Best Luxury Hotel in Australia (under 100 rooms)" - indicates that it could hold its own against...
...bracing themselves for likely staff cuts. Connecticut's board of education adopted a budget resolution in December that included an overall 10% reduction - a move that some fear means that pink slips for teachers are inevitable. "The biggest line items in most school budgets are staff and benefits," says Bob Brewer, an education consultant in East Hartford, Conn. "No district can absorb those kinds of hits without trimming some of those big-ticket items." (See pictures of politically engaged teens...
...Grammy night performance was directly followed by a highly coordinated Pepsi advertising tie-in, in which the new slogan “Every generation refreshes the world. Now its your turn.” bookended a short video that both analogized our time to the 1960s and unashamedly compared Bob Dylan to Will.i.am, the YouTube star who occasionally raps.So today, as Pepsi gives us a new image and a new declaration, I’m moved to ask: our turn to what? Labor Department projections are simply not as attractive as efforts to build up a newly prosperous, post-Nazi...
...Single Ladies.” Playing from his iPod, the song fills the room. When class starts, he stops dancing—for the most part, at least—but the iPod never goes away.The students of this music class are more likely to study Bob Dylan and Michael Jackson than Beethoven and Mozart. In fact, Backstreet Boys is on the syllabus too.“How Songs Work” is a non-credit seminar led for the first time this Spring by Adams House resident songwriter and tutor, Matthew J. Coriel ’05. The class...