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WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT 60 MINUTES GIG YOU AND BILL CLINTON...
...months from now, it seems likely that Franz Ferdinand, the Glasgow-based rock band that's hotter this second than a Paris Hilton download, will travel from gig to gig via a record company's limousine. But for now, the quartet seems content to carry their own guitars on the London Underground. On a January afternoon, they boarded in north London, stumbling through the barriers with kit and overnight bags like well-equipped buskers. A few stops down the line and Franz Ferdinand - no relation to the assassinated Archduke - emerges on a rainy Charing Cross Road in the city center...
This writing gig, this is my Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where it is easy to be bold and honest and confrontational. But in my real life, I have always been shy and wussy, and Mr. Rogers' gentle-Americana Buddhism made me feel as if that was good. He knew that the only reassurance in the face of the Sendakian horrors of childhood--the uncertainty, the lack of control--is acceptance. His neighborhood wasn't a utopia--he lived alone in a small apartment with a fish tank--but a community where every type of person was nice to him because...
...LIKE TINA FEY AND JIMMY FALLON'S TAKE ON YOUR OLD SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE GIG...
...that he has survived his dream role, Kirk, who recently bought a house in Los Angeles, says he is looking for some easier fare, maybe the kind of gig that can bring him some fame and fortune. "I was thrilled to be a WB hunk," he says with a laugh. "It's all I've ever wanted." Like Prior, Kirk may get more than he bargained for. --By Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles