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...music producer and penning a few successful songs for TV (including the theme to “Who’s the Boss?”), Kraft was asked to score a movie. “I had no idea how to do it, and I accepted the gig. I did what I needed to do. I went to a bookstore, read about film scoring, bought some gear, and asked people who had scored films,” he said. “You make a lot of mistakes. But you always learn more from a lot of mistakes...
...hippest concert venue since opening in June. Prince sold out 21 nights at the arena in August and September. Other top acts to play it so far include the Rolling Stones, Justin Timberlake, Elton John and the White Stripes. A reunited Led Zeppelin will play a one-time only gig at the O2 next month (it was originally scheduled for November but an injury to guitarist Jimmy Page has pushed it back to December 10th.) Some 25 million fans surged online for that show's 18,000 tickets, crashing the arena's website (which goes to show that online...
...restraints. “We wanted her to play,” Hurwitz said. “We were hoping she would do a little acoustic thing, but she has contractual obligations where she’s not allowed to play in the same city where she has a gig...So she said, ‘Why can’t we get on an eight person bike and speed away?’” Under instruction from the Lampoon, Spektor declined to comment on the evening’s events. “I can?...
...expat gig used to be a cushy one for U.S. executives of a certain level: jet into Tokyo or Paris, tuck family into American schools and clubs, slide into fully established local office as the bigwig from headquarters. It was more of an exotic detour for loyal lifetimers than a slingshot into directorship for the young and ambitious--but who cared? Somewhere, perhaps in Tokyo or Paris, that old-timey expatriate still sips his midday martini at the foreigners' club. But in the rough-and-tumble markets of China and India, a new generation of expats--they prefer "global executives...
...school that is going to give a full ride [scholarship] is incredibly attractive and enticing,” Amaker explains. “But we offer something that we think is even more exciting and enticing—a Harvard education.”This is a different gig for Amaker, whose résumé includes an assistant coaching position at Duke University, as well as head coaching jobs at Seton Hall and, most recently, the University of Michigan, where he coached for six seasons before being fired in March. “It’s our first...