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...acts--including Bono, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and the Dixie Chicks--tinkered with their schedules and submitted to Bennett's requirements. (A love for Bennett's voice was a driving factor, though the success of Ray Charles' multiplatinum, Grammy-winning Genius Loves Company was a compelling model of the benefits of synergy.) But singing ŕ deux can be a tricky business. "Duets are blind dates," says Bennett. "You meet people, often for the first time, and then you've got to get close enough to them to get at the soul of a song. We're trying...
...They've uncovered some personal papers of Albert Einstein. Turns out he had 10 girlfriends. Think about it: 10 girlfriends--that's 10 different names, 10 different phone numbers, 10 different birthdays. You'd have to be a genius!" --DAVID LETTERMAN...
...years after the debut of Survivor, 14 after the premiere of The Real World, reality TV has been around long enough for potential contestants to realize that appearing on a reality show is perhaps not the genius career move it seemed to be. If you're lucky, post--15 minutes, maybe you get to host a show on the TV Guide Channel. If you're less lucky, you get to co-host The View. Maybe you just swallow your pride and do the whole thing over again, as on the oxymoronically named Big Brother: All-Stars. But more likely...
...here obligates me to show the greatest gratitude. Everything that they are able to read in my eyes is simply being done. I am a good Swiss; but I make a distinction between political conviction and personal connection. Without these local colleagues I would surely have remained an "unappreciated genius"; I must constantly bear this in mind...
...This captivating exhibition gives a sense of what drove Maar to that obsessive hoarding of memories; of the giddy, dangerous thrill of orbiting, touching?occasionally guiding?artistic genius in all its searing intensity. It was Maar's glorious tragedy, and our good fortune, that she flew so close to the flame...