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...only five years) threw a street party in Manchester that drew thousands of revelers. City fans were treated to Thai delicacies such as red curry and stir-fried rice noodles, while karaoke-loving Thaksin lent his voice to a rousing rendition of the team's anthem, Blue Moon...
...However elitist his films or his audience might seem today, in the 60s the word of his eminence spread far and wide, and quickly. For instance, when he let it be known he hoped to make a film about astronauts preparing for the moon voyage, he found a powerful supporter: President John F. Kennedy. "He welcomed the project with great enthusiasm," Antonioni said of JFK. "He invited me to the White House to talk about this film." This was long before Blowup, when the filmmaker was still a caviar taste in the U.S. (I'll bet Jackie urged her husband...
...from some of Bach's cello suites, one of the world's most acclaimed contemporary dance troupes glided through 70 minutes of mesmerizing, Tai Chi-inspired choreography, culminating in a finale that saw the stage flooded with water. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre has presented its signature work, Moon Water, to ovations worldwide, but given the political rivalry between Taiwan and China, the company's recent turn in Beijing - its first in 14 years - was far from just another tour date...
...camera from his film school and secretly documented the violence. Kovacs, who fled to the U.S. in 1957 (CBS aired his footage in a 1961 documentary), went on to international acclaim for sweeping photography in more than 70 movies, including Five Easy Pieces, the black-and-white Paper Moon and Shampoo. He was credited with helping change the mostly studiobound look of features with the 1969 breakthrough film Easy Rider, in which he celebrated the landscape, making it, in his words, "this third person--a character...
Rock stars, too, like their swimming pools: Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones was found dead in one, Keith Moon of the Who claimed to have driven a Lincoln into one, and Joe Perry of Aerosmith--among many others--has one shaped like a guitar. Bono has lampooned the average activist rocker as a guy "with a swimming pool shaped like his own head." Paul McCartney said he and John Lennon used to sit down to compose saying "Let's write us a swimming pool...