Word: musician
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...class in high school, and a very focused, diligent, smart guy, but a little on the dry side, and my understanding was he was going to be either a scientist or doctor,” Fish says. “Not only did he change gears and become a musician, he became associated with new music and other experimental forms of music, which took a lot of guts...
...have friends who won't do this because they feel like they're lying," says Donna Parsons, a musician in Los Angeles who makes about $500 a month doing part-time mystery shopping and traveling. "The way I look at it, I'm helping workers do a better job and keeping honest people honest." In a recent "integrity shop"--a test of employee honesty--Parsons caught a bartender stealing cash...
Oddly enough, he was right. The four would-be suicides are Martin, a disgraced talk-show host; JJ, a failed rock musician; Jess, a teenager who just got dumped by her boyfriend; and Maureen, a middle-aged shut-in with a severely disabled son. Momentarily distracted from self-destruction, the four get to comparing notes. (Maureen is immediately judged the top gun, misery-wise. "Oh, yeah," says Jess. "That's a no-brainer. Don't change your mind. You'd only regret it.") They decide to put off jumping and instead form a bickering, wary, ad hoc fellowship...
...short for Most Definitely, which apparently he used to say so much that it became his nickname; his real name is Dante Smith. At 31, Mos is one of the few (only?) rapper-actors who is actually good at both. As a musician, he has a reputation for being progressive and socially conscious, a post-bling antidote to hip-hop's rampant gangsterism. His latest solo album, The New Danger, came out in October, and it's an example of how Mos's iron commitment to his idiosyncratic sensibility can get in his way. It features his laid-back, verbally...
...English teachers and the brother of a country-pop musician, Hubbard has defied the odds, serving as the chairman of Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) during the first two years of the Bush administration and holding the post of dean at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business since last year—all before his 50th birthday...