Word: gigged
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...answer simple questions," he says. "And it's not because I'm arrogant necessarily--though I know now that if I say, 'These questions are tedious,' it will indicate that I am arrogant--but there's just some things that I think run counter to the whole gig that I'm doing. As far as I'm concerned, the reality of Russell Crowe should be vanilla, and the viewer can add whatever it is they need to make it work for them...
...against the wall for a long time, but it feels really good when you stop." Then he heard a shutter click--"Oh, this one thinks he's being sneaky, f______ c__k!"--and the mood shifted. "But should I be hounded because I don't see it's my gig to live up to what I do on the screen? I mean, that's what a lot of people hound me for, right? Because I won't become an icon or a block of wood and behave at all times like a movie star." Then: "I think the most interesting...
...life. I began a romance, then married at 18 and became a mother at 19. And by that time, I was singing professionally at a college hangout called Michael's Pub in Boulder, Colo., for $100 a week, along with all the beer and pizza I wanted. That first gig supported our young family while my husband was in school, and it began my professional career as a folk singer...
...schedule and stick to it." His classmate Marielle Woods says she would love a night off, but that doesn't fit in with her plans to get into a top college. Last year on Ready, Set, Relax! night, she drove to New York City to audition for a gig as the voice-over narrator on a radio commercial. That's just one of about a dozen extracurricular activities she juggles while maintaining a 4.0 grade-point average. After a day of advanced-placement and honors classes, she spends two hours at tennis-team practice. And if she doesn't have...
Davis was born in 1925 in Harlem, the child of a chorus girl and a hardened vaudeville hoofer; that would be Sammy Davis Sr. Sr. took Jr. along on tour, and one afternoon little Sammy wandered onstage during a gig. Disaster loomed--but the audience laughed. A star was born. Davis...