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...words about the charity in the press release seemed more resonant: "To protect children who have no voice in the world.... whose fragile lives are being abused and lost due to uncertainties utterly out of their control." Around the parking lot, things were winding down. The group Hanson arrived. It's now four or five years since the three brothers first burst on the scene, and that has brought adolescence. Even so, there was something bizarre about seeing the guy who was the cute young singer in the group chatting up a girl in her late teens...
...here I was standing with one of the co-founders of the legendary rock group Traffic! (This was a stretch, and one of 12-seater-limo proportions!) Her final statement would win the Oscar for Outstanding Publicity Pitch (While Being Upstanding... Barely.) She proceeded to tell me that Hanson, the group I had just seen entering Spago, had just been determined to be Big Fans of Dave Mason and Traffic. (An influence I freely confess that I had not detected in their records...
...Pauline Hanson, Australia's right-wing populist critic of Asian immigration, is back in the news thanks to her One Nation party's role in humiliating the ruling federal coalition through two recent state elections. Many Australians are embarrassed not just by her views but by the eagerness with which the foreign media, which otherwise takes scant interest in Australian domestic politics, obsessively cover her. But should either Australians or the rest of the world worry about the Hanson phenomenon? And don't many of the same Asian nations that now cast aspersions at this supposed upsurge of racism also...
...Celebrities already lined up include an eclectic mix ranging from Jeff Bridges, Rob Reiner, Halle Berry and Jennifer Jason Leigh to Jon Voight, Priscilla Presley, Forrest Whitaker, Martin Landau and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Throw in such disparate names as pop group Hanson and George W. Bush's ambassador in Hollywood, Bo Derek, and you have an eclectic mix of celebrities to turn most heads. And with all those people to network with, that's why very few people in Hollywood will remember who won the Oscars by Monday morning...
...Those returnees include reliever David Boehle, first baseman Andrew Hanson, shortstop Pat Boran, outfielder Max Krance and utility man Jon Watterson. These veterans should make the Tigers an odds-on favorite to repeat as Ivy League champions...