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BARRY WILLIAMS Greg Brady gets record fine for nonunion Sound of Music gig. Even Alice can't fix this...
...while a Florida state legislator. Since then, he has spent a day a month working such jobs as teacher, Winn-Dixie bag boy, construction worker (see left) and horse-stable pooper scooper ("I kept the ring clear, so that people weren't odoriferously impacted," he reports). For his gig as a US Airways steward, Graham is boning up on his safety speech and his mixed drinks. "Of course, we'll be encouraging everyone to drink orange juice," he says...
GERALD FORD His Defense Sec'y gets old job, and cohort Cheney is V.P. Can Chevy Chase get his gig back...
...shockingly kind in a postshooting statement: "David Malloy was a good friend of mine for five years. I believe he is a good person who is obviously mentally troubled right now. I can only hope that he seeks the help he needs to get well." During a presenter gig at Thursday night's My VH1 Music Awards, Spade seemed his old self, announcing, "Hi, I just got beat up and tasered by one of my friends...
Both books aim to provide the context for that moment. From Kahn we learn how little even famous sidemen might make from a leader's gig: for the second of the two Kind of Blue sessions, at which Flamenco Sketches and All Blues were recorded, Coltrane, Adderley and Evans received $64.67 each. From Nisenson we learn what Nisenson has written in other books (he quotes himself so frequently that he begins to sound like a tape loop), and that he and Miles were bosom buddies. If you're interested in Nisenson, read Nisenson; if you're interested...