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...make a movie about a rock-'n'-roll icon who didn't die young? The fables of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Johnny Ace, Eddie Cochran and Sam Cooke provided their own curtain lines: a plane or a car crash, a gunshot wound. Their early deaths at the top of their game built little legends--tragic portraits suitable for filming...
MANN: The icon of the American work force is Horatio Alger. It's all about the individual. I'm all for the individual, but I think the individual could use a few climbing ropes too. That is why the outsourcing debate is misplaced. It is about long-term competitiveness of the U.S. economy, through the channel of its human resources. We're nothing without the people
...realize now that it is no more dangerous to be here than it is to be in New York." MADONNA, U.S. pop icon and recent devotee of Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism, dismissing her initial fears about traveling to Israel for the Jewish New Year...
...cars were few, and the street was as much a playground as were the park and schoolyard. "For stickball, we'd break off broom handles, then use sewer covers as bases," recalls Leonard (Lenny) Lauren, today a consultant to his younger brother, fashion icon Ralph Lauren. "The foul lines were the cars on both sides of the street...
...Fashion icon Elsa Klensch offers style tips for the over-50 crowd