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...fire fighter, Lau grew up the fourth of six kids in a public-housing estate in Hong Kong's industrial Tai Po district. Today, he commands about $1 million per movie and averages three a year; in addition, he performs several concerts annually for about $125,000 a show, and he boasts a steady stream of lucrative fees for advertisements and endorsements. This level of success "is more than enough," says Lau, whom friends describe as traditional and who lives in a house next door to his father's in Kowloon. In his spare time, Lau practices magic tricks...
...clubs that thrive on exclusivity,” Mahan says. In addition to the party fund, Mahan and Blickstead are trying to institute other neutral social options. “We’re trying to push for more variety in social life with events like movies, hypnotists and concerts,” Blickstead says. The council authorized the Harvard Concert Commission to begin negotiations with nine artists at its Feb. 29 meeting, and Busta Rhymes has just accepted the UC’s $40,000 bid. In addition to concerts, Mahan hopes to foster social life by playing...
...College is now recognizing a distinction between extracurricular activities and a social life,” Kidd says. After watching the formation of groups like harvardparties.com and the UC’s Concert Commission, Kidd says she realized the demand for more social alternatives was salient. And perhaps more important, the upcoming move to Allston has provided a chance to think toward the future. A survey sent to all undergraduates asks detailed questions about social habits, underscoring the University’s recent interest in the subject...
...that year, HCC and the council had lined up Wyclef Jean and Jurassic 5 to perform at the Bright Hockey Center. Delays in signing the contract stalled the start of ticket sales and the administration ultimately cancelled the concert because it was concerned that not enough tickets would be sold in time...
...Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan famously plugged in and used electric instruments to give a rock-'n'-roll charge to folk music. Less famously, in a '94 concert on MTV, Dylan plugged out, giving the alt-rock generation an intimate acoustic look at his musical mastery. That concert, MTV Unplugged, will be released this week on DVD for the first time, along with four extra songs--including his classic Desolation Row--that weren't in the original TV broadcast. --By Christopher John Farley