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DIED. RUBEN GONZALEZ, 84, Cuban pianist who rose to international fame as a member of the Buena Vista Social Club band; of respiratory and kidney failure; in Havana. With a gutsy and playful musical style, he was a pioneer of the mambo and the cha-cha. But it wasn't until 1996, at age 77, after his only piano had been destroyed by woodworms, that he was invited to join a multi-generational group of Cuban musicians, whose Buena Vista Social Club album won a Grammy, sold some 8 million copies and was the subject of an Oscar-nominated film...
...steady pounding of hype. At 41, with a measure of talent and no shortage of sheer cunning, he's routinely described as the painter of the moment. The Currin retrospective has already been seen in Chicago and London, and at every stop, all the bugles of fame have been sounding...
...Hanks, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn and the rest. With Crowe, you see a conflicted cop, a sensitive gay plumber, a neo-Nazi, a fragile genius; with others, you see actors playing roles. I respect Crowe's tenacity in staying true to himself. Because he won't play the fame game, he has been assigned a persona: arrogant bad boy. Your story unfairly perpetuated that image, leaving out instances of Crowe's generosity, loyalty, humor and zest for life. Crowe is rugged, rebellious and tender. His complexity makes his roles mesmerizing and accessible to all. Rhonda Peterson New York City...
...Maybe that even works better for our purposes. It’s more jaded, certainly. You can hear the tired sigh, the burden of having said something that people put on bumper stickers. But it also indicates a sort of populist quality, like everyone can get in on this fame and fortune thing and everyone has a story to tell. In that spirit, we present you with our final issue of the year. In Fifteen Minutes everybody is famous. It’s a yearbook of sorts, which goes appropriately with the whole quotation thing. You can meet...
...minutes of fame ended with few perks. “Eh, it didn’t get me any dates,” says Good. “[But I] had plenty already so, you know, I wasn’t too worried about that...