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Talent is the oldest, the classic American path, made up of people who simply go out and engage in a self-initiated activity, hoping it will bring them money, status or acclaim. The yeoman farmers and skilled artisans of the colonial period are examples. Today people who start businesses are Talents. So are performers. The key to the Talent path is that it's unstructured. No formal credential, no passing through a rigidly defined series of stations of the cross, is required. Talent is the riskiest of the three paths but also the most rewarding. Most of the familiar, celebrated...
Jeanne Calment, 121, isn't just the world's oldest living human. She's the world's oldest rapper. The acquaintance of Van Gogh has cut a record, Maitresse du Temps, in which she talks about her life over rap, techno and dance music. Some of the proceeds from the CD will go toward buying a minibus for her nursing home. Next up for Calment is, of course, a video...
Epstein's Tartuffe is equally fantastic. With amazing energy, Epstein plays up Tartuffe's wry sleaziness and brilliant dishonesty. His bursting libido and utterly unbelievable self-flagellation are comedy over three centuries old, but they still seem fresh in Epstein's hands. Watching Epstein, the ART's oldest and best actor, is pure...
Davis has liberally decorated his suite in Richardson Hall, the oldest dormitory in campus, with Forbes paraphernalia, including a brightly-colored poster and Forbes quote hanging from his window...
...Actors are required to change characters so frequently that the viewer finds himself lost at times in the constant mutation: the actor playing Adam in one scene is Noah in the next, but no deep resemblance between these two characters is suggested. Instead, it just seems as if the oldest actor has been put in the oldest roles. These frequent changes, necessitated by the story line, create shallow characters...