Word: musician
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After various gigs as a musician, including drummer in a ZZ Top-knockoff band called Tres Hombres, Thornton figured he and Epperson could strike it rich in New York City (that visit lasted all of 10 hours) and then Los Angeles. Together they wrote Thornton's eye-catching role as the white-trash murderer in One False Move. In this heralded heist film, shot in Arkansas in 1991, Thornton is never scarier than when he smiles--the picture of boll-weevil evil. He's good at that. "Billy can organize all the madmen inside himself," says John Ritter, the Three...
Freeman is from the Boston area, and his father attended Harvard. Freeman took off the first semester of his sophomore year before matriculating, and he used that time to work as a Sunday school teacher, bus boy, musician and guide at the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...reason that they are embodied with pyrotechnical prowess. A fire last year in Canaday Hall is the administration's local example of a halogen-induced fire, but surely we have all heard of other instances, not the least of which was the widely covered story of New York jazz musician Lionel Hampton whose apartment went aflame after his halogen tipped over. In the broader picture, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that halogens caused 100 fires and 10 deaths last year in this country...
...Gridlock'd, an ambitious first film as writer-director by actor Vondie Curtis Hall, Shakur plays Spoon, a musician who resolves to say aloha to heroin after his singer girlfriend Cookie (radiant Thandie Newton) nearly dies from a drug overdose. The plot has Spoon and his nutsy pal Stretch (wild man Tim Roth) fleeing a Detroit drug lord (Curtis Hall) who's peeved that the lads stole his stash. But the real story is of the runaround Spoon and Stretch get from social-service employees who can't be bothered to help addicts get into rehab programs. This...
...standard Italian and French fare the company has traditionally presented, he plans a foray into the German repertoire with new productions of Richard Strauss's operas as well as Wagner's Ring cycle, the calling card of major opera companies worldwide. "We chose him because he is a consummate musician," says Patricia L. Mossel, the company's executive director. "He knows voices. He is a very fine pianist. He knows the singers firsthand, having sung with them. What better person to cast and choose repertoire...