Word: musician
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...their children, and Bono was hurling metrics across the table as fast as they could keep up. "He was every bit the geek that we are," says Gates Foundation chief Patty Stonesifer, who helped broker that first summit. "He just happens to be a geek who is a fantastic musician...
...concert pianist, which his mother also once was. It's an improbably melodramatic premise-Golden Boy reset in Paris-and also a remake of the American film Fingers. But that reckons without the canny direction of Jacques Audiard and the appealing work of Romain Duris as the muscle man-musician. His efforts to reclaim himself are told with irony, a touch of almost unspoken romance and surprising, but plausible, results as the movie moves from noirish darkness to the more sunlit realms of artistic aspiration...
...onward he submitted works to the annual Salon des Indépendants, which was open to anyone who paid a small fee. After the success of Surprised! he retired to paint full time, and got by giving drawing and music lessons. In 1907 he was persuaded by a musician friend to take part in a bank fraud; at his trial the following year, his paintings were produced as evidence of his childishness, his testimony provoked laughter, and he walked free. Among the unanticipated pleasures of this show is the selection of Rousseau's landscapes, which never won much appreciation...
...kooky guy and always cracking jokes,” his son, Christopher Martino, said. “People who were his close friends knew this, but I don’t think the rest of the public ever recognized this in him.” Other musicians spoke of his unique approach to composing music. “He wrote music of great complexity and great purity at the same time,” Pianist and long-time friend Russell Sherman said. “But even beyond the beauty of his pieces, the music is imperishable—it?...
...Fake Musician Has Regained his Popularity and Can Get Back to His Roots...