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...taste in Philadelphia icons ran more to Grace Kelly. To many kids across the country, Kenny Rossi and Arlene Sullivan, Justine Carelli and Bob Clayton, Kathleen "Bunny" Gibson and Ed Kelly, Carmen MonteCarlo and Charlie Zamil were America's sweethearts, their lives followed as avidly as soap opera characters'. Another regular, Pat Molittieri, had advice columns in magazines like Seventeen. Frani Giordano was my wife's favorite when she was a lonely teen in upstate New York, weaving fantasies of adolescent romance into the dance patterns of people her age 300 miles away. Lou DeSera, Carmen Jimenez, Carole Scaldeferri, Rosemarie...
...Aussie icon Paul Hogan, nationalist politician Pauline Hanson, Wolverine Hugh Jackman, Guy Pearce, Cate Blanchett, Elle MacPherson and Kiwi Gladiator Russell Crowe, who grew up down under. Publicists begged off for Nicole Kidman ("She's up to her eyeballs in a film right now") and Australia-raised Mel Gibson ("He's filming intensively"). So did James Murdoch, son of tycoon Rupert, on the excuse that he was born in England and holds an American passport?and, presumably, can speak English better than Kylie Minogue, who also declined to comment. We even tried Meryl Streep, who seemed to perfect an Australian...
...Thursday, Dr. Gray was on "Good Morning America," telling Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson that he and his patient had a pact: "He's going to take me fishing and teach me how to bass fish...
...sound with an early reel-to-reel tape machines. He designed (but did not build) one of the first synthesizers. He devised the first eight-track tape recording system, which would not become generally accepted until 15 years later, with the Beatles' "White" album. And he invented the Gibson Les Paul, a guitar used in various models by Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and loads of other Guitar-zans. Paul told interviewer Frank Beacham that a lot of people don't know he plays a guitar. 'They think I am one.' He is something more: a genius of a tinkerer, with...
...mother, he learned piano, guitar and harmonica. His acquisitive intelligence led him into all sorts of precocious experiments, like poking new holes in player-piano music to make new melodies, or, at 13, disconnecting a console radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he would wire his guitar to radios stage right and left: voil?, stereo! 'If you can be an engineer and a musician,' he told David John Farinella for a biographical sketch in 'The Encyclopedia of Record Producers' (Billboard Books...