Word: gig
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...thing to shed, and it's a strange thing to own," he says of the role over sushi. "Because it's not you while you're doing it, and it's certainly not you after you do it. You're just an actor some casting director hired for the gig. But you have to own it." He has owned it, playing a clueless doctor in an Old Spice ad ("As a former make-believe doctor, there's one product I can recommend ...") and delivering a version of the Doogie theme song when he hosted Saturday Night Live. He has affection...
...40th-floor studio above the MTV offices in Times Square, the Beatles were together again, playing '60s hits like "A Hard Day's Night" and "Day Tripper." It wasn't exactly that final rooftop 1969 gig at the Apple studios in London, and these weren't the original moptops. They were us - three generations of Beatles fans - sitting in for you and getting to be them...
...original version of this story misstated the location of the Beatles? final gig in 1969; it was on the roof of Apple, not Abbey Road, Studios. The story also wrongly said that the box set The Beatles in Mono features every Beatles song; in fact, the box set omits those songs originally mixed only in stereo...
...While most of the reactions to Sawyer's new gig have centered on the seismic change in evening news - two female anchors! - the morning shows are left in far greater flux. A great morning news show is not entirely dependent on talent; breaking news is important, as is landing the biggest, most topical guests. But famous anchors make the other parts easier...
...fetish shops before, let alone yearned to enter, but once inside it was intriguing to explore such a foreign world. This was my first taste of the access a reporter’s badge can grant. True, it wasn’t quite as high profile as a fashionable gig or exclusive interview, but I thoroughly enjoyed my glimpse into the restricted areas of London’s gay district...