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The secret to the DMB's success is not its CDs but its concerts. Only the big boys in rock--Mick, Bruce, Bono--can routinely fill 60,000-seat stadiums. Add Dave to that list. In 2000, according to Amusement Business, the DMB was the country's top-grossing touring...
While one man (Soderdergh) was nominated for two films, one film (Crouching Tiger) was nominated as Best Film twice?once in the main category, the other in the Foreign Language Film niche. Ang Lee's Mandarin masterpiece of martial artistry (officially a Taiwanese entry) will win the "lesser" prize, the...
Cheung-yan Yuen, the action choreographer for Charlie's Angels, made kung-fu fighters out of Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. Corey Yuen (no relation) put Jet Li through a black-and-blue workout in the box-office hit Romeo Must Die. And who supervised the buoyant action...
But as Gary Giddins amply demonstrates in his biography "Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years, 1903-1940," Bing was an instant hit on records and radio, and in the movies. He starred in Paramount's "The Big Broadcast" of 1932 and would stay at the studio for...
While all this may sound good--by 1998, Wu-Tang, Inc., was grossing more than $25 million a year--RZA, Divine and Oli Grant, the band's corporate brain trust, feel the group has spread itself too thin. "A few years ago, I told my brothers [fellow Clan members] that...