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That's why Beat Takeshi, 54, has become the icon for Japan's troubled times. Think of David Letterman, Clint Eastwood, Dave Barry and Quentin Tarantino all rolled into one person?and then give that one person bumper-to-bumper, gavel-to-gavel, cover-to-cover, morning-till-evening omnipresence on any and all forms of media. He is a one-man entertainment conglomerate, and has been a dominant pop culture figure for more than 20 years. In addition to his seven TV shows, he has penned 71 volumes of satirical commentary, written poetry and reams of magazine columns...
While I would agree that Gionta was once again the key to the Eagles' success, last night's performance hardly overshadows the one-man show he put on against Maine a few weeks ago. Gionta netted five goals on five shots against the Black Bears, all coming in the first period...
...request show TRL, they're abridged or buried amid chat. Take the newest potential hit, the eponymous show of chef to the stars Wolfgang Puck of L.A.'s Spago (Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.). In the cooking portion, Puck, the quintessential celebrity chef, shows the range that made him a one-man empire. But the clear selling points are the long, taped segments of him hobnobbing with Hollywood big shots. "I want to show not just what I do in my kitchen but what I do in my life," he says. That that life involves Michael Eisner and Kelsey Grammer...
DIED. VICTOR BORGE, 91, hammy pianist and conductor whose one-man Broadway show, Comedy in Music, ran a record 849 performances; in Greenwich, Conn. Borge originally trained as a concert pianist in his native Denmark, but eventually began incorporating satire and sight gags into his act. A Jew, he fled Europe to escape the Nazis, arriving in the U.S. speaking no English but ultimately perfecting his act to gain worldwide acclaim...
...undeniable that Presidents have an impact on the popular culture. There was Jack Kennedy, who led to the one-man destruction of the hat industry, and his wife, Jackie, who used the White House as a forum for various forms of art. In more recent times, the earnest style of Jimmy Carter gave way to the Reagan years and D.C. was instantly transformed into what style writers excitedly called an era of elegance. OK, it may have been your grandfather?s idea of elegance - shiny, mothball-smelling tuxes and glazed denture smiles - but it was certainly a change. From...