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...Julia Child is still a legend: "She had, in the words of one fan, an 'unassuming, unruffled manner.' She was not prissy - she would stick her fingers in the sauce to taste, lick spoons, drop ingredients, and then toss them into the stew pot. As different as she was from her predecessors, so she was from her progeny. Today's cooking shows groom their hosts for celebrity-hood. For non-live shows, any dropped utensils or unsanitary peccadilloes can be edited out. Those imperfections, however, were a crucial element to Child's persona...
...other day I got an e-mail from this guy Ron Finucan, who's a friend of Walter Gretzky - the guy who taught hockey legend Wayne Gretzky everything he knew, both on and off the ice. Walter Gretzky: the Father of the Great One (and, as most Canucks will tell you, Canada...
...Time Out of Mind,” 2001’s “Love and Theft,’” and 2006’s “Modern Times”—it’s still a surprise to hear the legend at the height of power, singing with an authority that his age has finally caught up to. And why shouldn’t it be? Dylan’s always been measured by a unique standard, and now, pushing 70, he’s become the paradigm for the stately elder...
...though, because I choose to apply it to myself. It’s nice to have a uniform,” she says. Chou started wearing the homemade bow, which covers nearly one whole side of her head, a little over a year ago. The bow is now a legend across campus, especially in Quincy dining hall, where it frequently appears like a glint of cartoon cheeriness peeking into the Harvard milieu; and Chou assures that it is a daily absolute. “I mean, you don’t leave your house without your pants, do you? Besides...
Quincy Jones on John Legend...