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...years ago would have been as inconceivable as seeing The Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown on the list of Pulitzer finalists. "There are so many people who've made millions of dollars and don't deserve to be allowed into a recording studio," says indie rocker Ted Leo, whose cover of Since U Been Gone is a much swapped Internet hit. "She got where she is by having a great voice, by grinding it out and by not having an image. How can you not like that...
DIED. JOHN SPENCER, 58, Emmy Award--winning actor best known as the savvy, tough White House chief of staff turned vice-presidential candidate Leo McGarry on TV's The West Wing; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. The son of blue-collar parents, he got his break as Harrison Ford's cop sidekick in the 1990 film Presumed Innocent. That led to his big TV roles as L.A. Law's streetwise lawyer Tommy Mullaney and West Wing's top aide, who last season left his post after suffering a heart attack...
...musical doesn’t fully translate; the film looks and feels unnecessary, as if it was made for the sole purpose of getting another dime out of a third adaptation.Tony-winners Lane and Broderick return to their celebrated roles as Max Bialystock, the devious Broadway producer, and Leo Bloom, his timid and mentally-unstable accountant, who devise a plan to embezzle a fortune. They figure that by raising more money than needed to produce a show, they can keep the difference if the show flops–so begins the search for the worst musical ever.Seemingly, they find just...
...created an economic development vehicle, GNO Inc., with a five-year goal of creating 30,000 jobs. They may make their goal quicker than that, but the jobs will be in Baton Rouge, or perhaps Houston and Atlanta, thanks to the hurricane. At a downtown job fair last week, Leo G. Doyle, a sales-training manager for UPS, said his company lost 30% of its work force after Katrina and was looking for drivers and package handlers. "We have a lot of good workers who have been displaced, a lot of good workers with loss-of-family issues, loss...
From his birthplace in Calvinist Geneva, Jean-Jacques Rousseau migrated toward the hub of Enlightenment-era intellectual activity in Paris. Now, in a new biography, Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch returns Rousseau to center stage, where he belongs. Like a swift alpine stream, Damrosch’s writing is as enchanting as it is effortless. The biography is not only a pleasant read, but a welcome addition to bookshelves. Damrosch likes to note that this is the first single-volume Rousseau biography to be written in English. In an interview with The Crimson, Damrosch characterizes the only other...