Word: fakeness
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Rock is used to front men like Bono (who wants to throw his arms around the world) and Mick Jagger (who wants to throw his legs around the world). But Radiohead's lead singer, Thom Yorke, would just like the world to behave. His best songs--Fake Plastic Trees, Let Down, Pyramid Song--are written from the perspective of a perfectly rational person who thinks the rest of the world has gone nuts. As rock mantras go, this has all the sex appeal of "Get off my lawn!" But millions have been moved to heights of ecstasy by Radiohead...
...called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting yes, with a €376 million, 34-hectare shopping-and-entertainment complex, Madrid Xanadú. In addition to the ski slope, which has a run 250 m long and 55 m wide, covered in man-made snow and over 100 fake trees, the mall has 220 stores, 30 restaurants, a 15-screen movie theater and a 3,716-sq-m go-cart track. Nestled amid grassy hills, office parks and apartment blocks in a massive ring of suburban sprawl 24 km southwest of Madrid - joining the big-box Ikea and Media...
...monologue to guests MR. T, Richard Lewis and Johnny Knoxville--even the movie-promo clips. "In some of the shots you'll see a hand come in and adjust a head or something," says O'Brien. "It may be the least professional clay animation ever broadcast." If the fake Conan is a hit, can a real, live Craig Kilborn be far behind...
...jeans and T shirts. They said that they were local farmers who had been coerced previously into playing cavemen. A few weeks later, a team from Der Stern arrived, led by the Tasaday's original discoverer, and found them once again wearing leaves. That, supposedly, proved they were fake. Comparisons were drawn with Piltdown Man, the great paleoanthropological hoax of the early 20th century...
...depends on "American Idol" staying a powerhouse, which is always iffy in the mercurial world of reality TV. At one point, Simon Cowell came onstage to critique Berman's delivery, after which they had a fake squabble and he walked offstage. "You won't be seeing me here next year," he said...