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During his 18-year tenure as president of Blue Note records, Bruce Lundvall has had an open-door policy for new talent. Anyone can call up the legendary jazz label, schedule an appointment and play him a demo. Lundvall has heard thousands of tapes, but only twice has a relative unknown walked into his office and walked out with a record deal. The first, in 1994, was Rachelle Ferrell, who possesses a dazzling 6 1/2-octave vocal range. The second was a tiny wisp of a singer named Norah Jones. "Norah doesn't have one of those over-the-top instruments...
...they liked me in the first place.” The album’s 16 tracks, which Lord recorded herself at Park Street and Harvard Square, consist almost entirely of covers, including Big Star’s “Thirteen,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” and the Pogues’ “Sayonara.” The disc also features songs by Lord’s longtime friends Nick Saloman (of the Bevis Frond) and Grammy-winning mainstream breakout Shawn Colvin (of “Sunny Came...
...With reporting by Matthew Cooper, John Dickerson, Sally Donnelly, Michael Duffy, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington, Bruce Crumley/Paris, Tim McGirk/Kabul and Alex Perry/Mazar-i-Sharif
...success has spawned a mini industry in Hong Kong. Artist Eric So's career took off when he released a collection of retro-dressed Bruce Lee figures in 1997. So, 33, a friend of Lau, describes his recent Sprite-commissioned dolls and Vespa-riding Sam Lee figures as "playable artworks." Radio presenter Martin Lam, 26, creates hunched bad-boy dolls as promotional items for streetwear shops such as Tokyo's Double Taps. "They are all animated versions of me, my other personas," Lam says...
There are plenty of war heroes on the screen these days - Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, even Josh Hartnett is killing bad guys in a theater near you. The Gulf War brought you Norman Schwarzkopf, talking a good war for the news cameras; in this war your media hero is steely-eyed, clench-jawed Donald Rumsfeld...