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...afraid. He's not afraid of getting made fun of, he's not afraid of change, and he's not afraid of his audience flying away. In fact, every time he's become successful at something, he's stopped doing it. As soon as he became famous as an impressionist, he stopped doing characters. After he got traction as a stand-up, he retired his act, going onstage without any material, often being overtly hostile to his audience. When that got him a job on Fox's sketch show In Living Color and led quickly to a $20 million paycheck...
...controversial article popped up in its circulating headlines. Daniel Radcliffe—the precocious, Elijah Wood look-alike who plays the title role in the Harry Potter movies—will be starring in a London production of “Equus” this month. The play is famous for its combination of gruesome animal violence and sexual overtones—and its full-frontal nude scene. Publicity photos for the play feature half-naked shots of Radcliffe, now 17, sporting chiseled abs and bronzer, sensually stroking a white horse...
...AIA’s poll 1,804 “randomly selected” Americans were instructed to pick their preferred choice of architecture from a list of 248 buildings prepared by an AIA panel. Sever beat famous buildings like Fenway Park (ranked 113) and New York’s Radio City Music Hall (100) to snag slot 77, standing as the only Harvard-affiliated building on the list...
...somewhat sheepishly - whether I can give them directions to the "Fake Market." There are actually several of these, each a four- or five-story building jammed with stalls selling everything from shoes to toys, handbags, DVD players, watches, pearls, electronics, sports equipment. Almost everything in these establishments bears a famous name brand, often with supporting literature. There are Rossignol ski jackets complete with authentic-looking glossy printed cards featuring cutaway diagrams that explain the virtues of their superior GoreTex weather proof exterior and Thermic Comfort insulation...
...stop after a few days. And those "Timberland" boots? Well, I needed a pair to get through Beijing's fearsome winter so I went down to the Silk Market, one of the emporiums of fakery. For $15, I picked up a pair of solid-looking work boots bearing a famous label. A few months later, I am still wearing the boots. Much to the amusement of my children, though, where once the pair were a uniform tan, one has now metamorphosed to a deep orange while the other is the color of milky coffee. When I went back...