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...Arcade Fire landed the dream gig for any new band: a few nights opening for U2. By appearances, it was an odd fit. Arcade Fire's seven members took the stage looking as if they just had just ridden out a hurricane in a trailer park. Instruments, hair and clothing were strewn everywhere. The set list, culled from their debut, Funeral, was full of songs about death played on accordion and mandolin. Later U2's the Edge would create endless spaces between guitar chords, while Bono drove metaphorical trucks through them, but somehow Arcade Fire's patchwork symphonies roared almost...
...your show-biz gig looks a lot like every job in America...
...billion dollars. That’s a pretty hefty sum. With that much money, you could buy one billion “Livestrong” Bracelets, or four million iPods (the 30 gig ones), or 54 million copies of Hillary Clinton’s book. You could also use that money to fight poverty, illiteracy, crime, to fund public education or national healthcare. Or you could use that money to fund TV ads about sex scandals...
...same vein, Kruger says that the manager gig proved to be less of a business experience, and more of a “real-world” experience...
...Alpha Dog,” everyone’s lines seem straight out of a romance novel you find in the dollar bin, but it’s all in wholesome, pulp fun. Throughout, Johansson seems very conscious of the fame that got her this gig. Fueling the rumors of a made-in-tabloid-heaven romance, the two definitely have chemistry, but then again, what man wouldn’t with Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year? After JT discovers Scarlett’s indiscretions, she runs to her vehicle and he follows in a sports...