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...if Dylan's long-delayed, much-ballyhooed autobiography would ever get written, and if it did, if it would actually make any sense. It did both: skipping forward and back in time, Chronicles covers Dylan's Minnesota beginnings, his influences (Bertolt Brecht?), his studio sessions, his grouchy discomfort with fame and his sense (while on tour with Tom Petty in the 1980s) of being not so much tangled up as washed up. It's coy and revealing at the same time--in other words, quintessentially Dylanesque...
...Season 1 winner, Jay McCarroll, was a fast-talking, filthy-mouthed showboat with a thing for giant pink sunglasses. But rather than trying to extend his 15 minutes, he's still in rural Pennsylvania working on a collection and, he says, turning down offers to cash in on his fame. "People throw scripts at me for the dumbest s___," he says. "I'm not an actor! I don't want to play Santa Claus' gay assistant. I have to buckle down and be the designer that I went on the show to be." (O.K., he's not a total shrinking...
...broke the news about Brad adopting Angelina’s babies.Well, I mean, I didn’t alert the national media to it or anything, but within my Harvard social circle, I was certainly the first to know. Perhaps I prefer fame-tastic tussles to midterm paper-writing. Perhaps I’m just waiting for the right moment to pounce on a newly-separated Brad (or Angelina, for that matter). Whatever the motivation, there’s one secret weapon I have that keeps me ahead of my peers when it comes to celebrity stalkage: I bypass...
...which sounds like a first-time poet’s melodramatic scrawlings, a la Vanessa Carlton’s bathos-filled album title, “Be Not Nobody.” Vomit.Shakira’s attempt at robotic rap talk and raging against the fame-hungry, greedy world, “Animal City” is only worth listening to in order to hear the random elephant and wolf noises at the end. No lie. On the rest of the album Shakira either reminisces about dulled love (“Dreams for Plans”), expresses her dependence...
...life tennis analyst, Luke Jensen, to portray Luke Dorkovich, an over-the-hill player who takes Ecstasy to improve his serve, is a deft touch. Jason Issacs (Lucius Malfoy in “Harry Potter”) also provides a fine caricature as the scheming nemesis, whose uses his fame to trick Logue’s Macklin into losing his job. As per the formula, Issac’s Johnnie Green and his Derek Lowe look-alike sidekick, Nick Allen, haunt the tennis circuit and play our heroes in the finals…which, of course, goes down...