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...Pinpointing Banksy's identity has long been a popular parlor game, and it's yielded false positives before. Last fall, a passerby in the East London neighborhood of Bethnal Green snapped a camera-phone picture of a man spray-painting a mural later confirmed to be Banksy's. In May, the New York City-based media blog Gawker suggested that Banksy might be Nick Walker, a British artist who, after being spotted stenciling a mural on the side of a Manhattan restaurant, reputedly told an onlooker that he was the elusive artist. The precision and scope of Banksy's creations...
...lunched with Julia Roberts and slept with Madonna (that relationship didn't work out, we're told, because ''Madonna came on far too strong for him. Blatant sexuality really embarrasses John''). According to the book, he flamed out with famous flirt Sinead O'Connor. When John asked for her phone number, the singer snapped...
With extremely limited facility in Japanese, I am also generally at a loss to understand advertisements. An occasional English word accompanied by a photo tends to indicate that cell phone providers and green tea producers frequent the walls of the Tokyo metro. Posters supporting the Tokyo 2016 Olympic bid have been a recent addition...
There are many practices unique to the Tokyo Metro. Trains are generally stuffed to bursting, yet at every stop people manage to push their way onto the train as those around them bang into each other like bowling pins with no space to tumble. Talking on a cell phone is strongly discouraged, however texting tends to be the favorite activity of most of the train riders. Tokyo commuters have also developed an uncanny ability to sleep standing up, somehow waking up just when the train reaches their station...
...Pelosi had an ace up her sleeve - or in her bag. Just as the audience began to get fidgety, she began to talk about climate issues, and pulled her cell phone out of her purse. The moderator asked if Pelosi was "pulling a Giuliani." In fact, one-upping Rudy Giuliani's now-famous cell-phone call from his wife during a high-profile speech, Pelosi explained that she had a letter from a friend, an expert on the issue. Placing her phone to the microphone, Vice President Al Gore's voice began to narrate a climate-change plea for action...