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...Patrick did get Nic into the music business. At 15, the lad performed karaoke for an executive of Emperor Entertainment Group, a Hong Kong artist management and recording company. He left school to pay homage to the music muse, and after a rough start?"For two years I had nothing but crap thrown at me"?he skyrocketed as a new Prince of Canto-pop. This year he won a World Music Award as China's top-selling artist. And a poll of 1,343 Mainland students found him to be the fourth highest-ranking "idol," after Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong...
...Cannes and made him a sought-after commodity. He now has the luxury of choosing his projects and turned down a part in Martin Scorsese's forthcoming Gangs of New York to make The Magdalene Sisters. Hollywood has beckoned but Mullan still sees himself as a working-class lad from Glasgow. "It's like the 'Are you still a Catholic?' question," he says. "I was brought up a Catholic until I was 18. I was economically working class until I was 37. I can't escape in that I'm working class, but I'm very lucky in that...
...Mohzam Siddique was wearing the brown shalwar kameez his mother had ironed the night before and carried a spare in a plastic shopping bag. "All he said was that he was going to a public rally," recalls Ahmed, who had taken care of Siddique's family ever since the lad's father, a Pakistani artilleryman, was killed by Indian soldiers in a firefight in Kashmir in 1980, when Siddique was just...
...there." As travel books go, The Art of Travel is on the unconventional side. It isn't about traveling anywhere in particular; it's an extended philosophical riff on the act of traveling itself. De Botton's specialty is the metaphysics of everyday life--he is the thinking lad's Nick Hornby--and in The Art of Travel he takes on the how, the why and the what-it-all-means of wanderlust. Mining his own sometimes hapless experiences (watch for a fight of Nietzschean proportions with his girlfriend in a Barbados cafe), De Botton encourages us to savor...
...himself Fred Nash, except that it lacks class, rhythm, torque. And if, like his mother and aunts, he had initialized his first name, Nash's literary rise might have been imperiled Since the F. Middle-name Last-name format had been copyrighted by Scott Fitzgeriled. When he was a lad he suffered a severe eye infection that required him to be in the dark for a year, So his mother schooled him in the classics, which helped him develop an imposing memory, not to mention the ability to read by ear. Being of the male sex, he was allowed...