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...shake the hand of the artist at the end,” said Dominic C. Deleon ’04. “It made a link between these famous artists and the common people.” Deleon did more than just shake hands: at a Cody ChestnuTT gig, he got up onstage and rapped and sang with ChestnuTT...
...often says that she prefers her current gig as Miss Virginia to more conventional post-graduate opportunities. “At some point I’m going to have to get a real job, so I want to enjoy this,” she says. “It’s all about what I can do. There are no limits...
...seen before: Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman occupying the same piece of celluloid. Although the two wily veterans were roommates way back in their struggling-actor days, they have never shared the big screen. Runaway Jury, a legal thriller that opens Oct. 17, will be their first co-starring gig. "Gene's always had the ability to be extremely, almost criminally, honest and natural in his work," says Hoffman. Says Hackman: "Dustin takes big chances, a big bite out of something, which I love." Well, now he does. Probably it was different back when they shared a fridge...
...Robert Plant hasn't called, and Grohl is no longer practicing the Zep canon. "The most important thing is that if they do a reunion tour, they find the person most capable of filling in for John Bonham. Of course, I would cut off my c___ to have that gig." The dream lives on. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...didn't mean to create the devil. He just wanted a job. But when Seann William Scott quit his gig stocking shelves at Home Depot to audition for the 10-line part of Steve Stifler in 1999's teen-sex comedy American Pie, he unwittingly invented the icon of the Generation Y frat boy, the Eustace Tilly of the Maxim set. Scott's Stifler, who returns this Friday in the Pie franchise's third installment, American Wedding, is a rich kid dedicated to humiliating those who appear to be his friends. In the first film, he slipped a laxative...