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...grownup Boy, George O?Dowd, and produced by talk-show diva Rosie O'Donnell - offered plenty of fodder. There were cancelled performances, reports of backstage fights, a star who walked out of a rehearsal, a director nearly fired. All that and a producer shuttling between the theater and a Manhattan courthouse, where she was involved in a lawsuit with the former publisher of her defunct magazine, Rosie...
Aficionados had much the same reaction to two sophisticated young pianists who made New York City debuts last week. One was jazzman Matt Savage, who led his trio through a swinging, bop-tinged evening at Manhattan's Blue Note. His sets ranged from the standard My Favorite Things to originals like Groovin' on Mount Everest. He traced melodies simply, sometimes decorating them with trills, and shifted between softly gliding passages and furious fantasias with his arms whipping up and down the keyboard, using even his fist to bang out a climactic chord. "Scary," marveled jazz pianist D.D. Jackson...
...sure their kids don't turn out that shallow. It's the parents who should be teaching their kids how to behave. That's not my responsibility. I'm not responsible for your kid." This provocative sound bite is served up during our first chat, in a hotel in Manhattan on Oct. 21, a few days before Spears begins her publicity swing through Europe - an interview that marks the start of our two-week, worldwide dash to keep up with her. At this point there is no sign of impending illness, but it's clear something isn't quite right...
...have picked up the flu. "I spotted a lot of people sneezing and coughing during the rehearsals," reports its director, Nick Whitham. "Something was definitely going around." Watching the taping from the wings, though, one hardly notices. Spears sure looks hearty enough, prancing up and down the stage at Manhattan's Gotham Hall, lip-synching songs from In the Zone while peeling off layer after layer of ever-tighter clothing. Her eight leather-clad backup dancers seem pretty robust too, particularly in a routine for a tune called Toxic, during which they blindfold Spears, roll her around the studio...
Glaeser said that although Harvard students may not be affected directly by New York’s market right now, many may want to move to Manhattan later and the rising costs of housing will make it difficult for students to find residences...