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...chose him because we just thought he was hipper than other people around," says Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who cast Yao opposite Verne (Mini-Me) Troyer in an ad for the firm's new notebook computers. Visa built its Super Bowl ad around Yao's brief English-speaking debut ("Can I write a check?" he asks...
...country of origin except when the story mandates that an additional non-English language be predominant." That rule was used to reject the U.K.'s original submission, Asif Kapadia's The Warrior, which is in Hindi. A Western take on a Japanese fable transplanted to India, Kapadia's directorial debut earned rave reviews and three nominations at this year's BAFTA awards. The film has a second-generation British director, a British screenwriter and British backers - yet was considered insufficiently British, since it was shot in India with Indian actors speaking Hindi. "I'm appalled," says The Warrior producer Bertrand...
Long before releasing his debut album in October, he became infamous when he jumped onto the set of The Strokes’ video shoot for “Last Nite,” telling bandleader Julian Casablancas that putting him in the video would make history...
...artist with influences as diverse as Prince, the Beatles and the early 20th century blues, it’s no surprise that he made his Boston area debut at the House of Blues. ChesnuTT had the lights switched on to illuminate the portraits of the blues musicians adorning the ceiling. That same humility had led him to record his first video, “Look Good in Leather,” for a mere...
Paper tubes first made a debut in Ban’s work in 1986 when he designed an exhibition in Finland. Unable to use wood, Ban accidentally came across a paper tube in his studio, a leftover from a previous project. Immediately attracted to the paper tubes because of their similarity to wood in color, he was converted when he realized their sturdiness, inexpensiveness and availability in various lengths, thicknesses and diameters...