Word: greys
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...mayor Ken Livingstone solves problems with brio in the energetic spirit of New York City's legendary Fiorello La Guardia. Livingstone deals with the problems of cars, buses and the underground with pragmatism and technocratic efficiency, using American-style executive authority. Londoners have warmed to his common sense. Martin Grey High Wycombe, England It was rather sad that your story on London's Livingstone suggested that the congestion charge, the fee scheme for vehicles entering central London, has not been an unqualified success. The fact that the congestion charge has not raised as much money as projected to invest...
...gray album. "I was cleaning my house at the time," says Burton. "It wasn't my deepest thought ever." Still, he spent three cloistered weeks in his bedroom translating snippets of Beatles music into hip-hop rhythm and synchronizing them with Jay-Z's vocals. Then he burned The Grey Album for a few friends. Within a month, more than 1 million copies had been downloaded from the Internet...
Suddenly Burton was famous, and not entirely happy about it. The Grey Album didn't just use unlicensed samples from two of the world's most famous artists-it was only unlicensed samples, and the Beatles' label, EMI, is vigilant about enforcing its copyrights. "You couldn't make a more illegal album," says Burton. "When it spread beyond being a little art project, of course EMI came after me." It wasn't just the cease-and-desist business that bothered him. He was also a little put out by the acclaim heaped on his Frankenstein's monster (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY named...
Luckily, Burton got a second chance to make an impression on the world's ears. Damon Albarn, the singer-songwriter behind the acclaimed British band Blur and the multiplatinum rap-rock concoction Gorillaz, heard The Grey Album and liked it. "But I loved the metaphor," says Albarn, "the mixing of genres and the idea that you can take past and present and make something futuristic." Albarn summoned Burton to London and quickly hired him to produce Gorillaz's second album, Demon Days, out this week. Albarn says he and Burton had "loads of music" in common. They are also both...
...press release: "Ever wonder what life would be like if a new form of sea life began to appear in locales all over the earth?" Yes! All the time!) Inconceivable, a comic-edged drama about a fertility clinic, looks like it was conceived through an egg donation from Grey's Anatomy. And in E-Ring, Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI) gives us a drama in the Pentagon, for your retired uncle who needs something to watch now that JAG is gone. In it, Dennis Hopper plays an officer. The '60s are officially over...