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...another way: What is it that makes a prime-time star out of Howie Mandel, a guy whose claim to fame used to be inflating a latex glove with his nose? Says Mandel, of NBC's Deal or No Deal: Part of it is hard work. The comic and former St. Elsewhere co-star pooh-poohed the job when it was offered--"I couldn't see myself reading trivia questions off a card"--but one backed-up money truck later, he calls it "the most creative thing I've ever done." Executive producer Scott St. John says Mandel...
...protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon it affects to study an ordinary day or so in the wholly extraordinary lives of its heroes. They are the clear-eyed innocents, imprisoned by fame ? but never for a moment blinded to the really flagrant foolishness of the adult world around them...
This is not bird flu or SARS or even the "flesh-eating bacteria" of tabloid fame. But it is every bit as dangerous, even if it goes by an uncommonly ungainly name: community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA...
DIED. Gyorgy Ligeti, 83, Hungarian avant-garde composer whoin spite of his staunch refusal to seek popular acceptancegained global fame when, unknown to him, Stanley Kubrick used his music in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, giving him a new fan base of trippy, psychedelic teens; in Vienna. As a young composer, he was afraid to write down the modern pieces he heard in his head for fear of government retaliation ("totalitarian regimes do not like dissonances," he wrote). After escaping communist Hungary, he wrote polyphonous, unpredictably paced concertos, chamber pieces and other works, including one opera, Le Grand...
...Tree of Fame is not the weirdest thing going on here. Not even close. The tree is on a 14-acre farm in middle of South Central Los Angeles - the area south of downtown that rappers mention when they want to sound tough. The seemingly endless gardens are farmed by 350 poor people, each of whom have a plot where they make dinners from the corn, bananas, guava, cactus, mulberries, avocado and sugar cane they grow. It is one of the most surreal things I've ever seen, and I was at Time Warner when AOL bought...