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...more than a hobby. The Galchenkos are easygoing and tons of fun to be around, but when it's time to work, something shifts behind their eyes and they get weirdly intense and laser-focused. "They have personalities that are very, very unpleasantly obsessive," says magician and juggler Penn Jillette (he means that with nothing but affection). "When I was around them practicing, they would do stuff that no one had ever done and then say, 'That sucks...
...have performed around the world and won major competitions. They have learned near perfect English. After some bouncing around, they now live with a generous juggling aficionado in a mansion about an hour outside Los Angeles. And they have acquired a mentor, a brilliant, bombastic, shaven-headed, muscle-bound juggler named Jason Garfield...
...looking for in Harvard’s musical theater scene, which he first entered as part of the Harvard-Radclife Dramatic Club (HRDC) production “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” this fall. “There’s something for everyone here, from the juggler to the clarinetist to the swing dancer,” he said. “Also, it’s more intense [than in high school], but when you are with people for two weeks every night from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. you really get to know people...
...TIME's article on the perils of multitasking with communication devices was just what the doctor ordered for our obsessed society. I see more people like the Hollywood producer you described as a "fidgety, demanding, chattering, whirling dervish of a task juggler." They are not only addicted to their electronic gadgets, but they also take tremendous pride in overusing them. Your story says it is more productive to focus on one task at a time, but my cure for e-mail and cell-phone addiction was to quit the rat race altogether. I haven't touched a cell phone, BlackBerry...
...hours with Hollywood producer Jennifer Klein, and you might want to pop a Valium. Or slip her one. From the moment she rises at 7 a.m. in the Sunset Boulevard home she shares with her husband, she's a fidgety, demanding, chattering whirling dervish of a task juggler. Right now Klein, 41, whose credits include Pearl Harbor and Armageddon, has 15 film and TV projects in development--all of them requiring constant nudging and nurture. Her strategy for managing that and several overflowing In boxes: never do just two things at once if you can possibly do four or five...