Word: platinum
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...using his fame. The smartest was to use his fame differently. Benjamin asked his agents to cold-call directors he respected to find out whether they would be willing to have lunch. More often than not, they were. Benjamin always made a point of explaining that Andre 3000 - the platinum blond superfreak put together from the spare parts of George Clinton, Rick James and Prince - is nothing like André Benjamin, the person named Esquire's best-dressed man in the world. "Andre 3000 is wild and crazy. He's got the energy of a little kid," says Benjamin...
...flowing?as is Carbo's voice: "My, my, my, Delilah!" The reverb might be less than crystal-clear tonight, but that doesn't stop the high emotion from bouncing back. Yet even though the room is filled with musicians and an opera star, two gatecrashers steal the show. A platinum-haired English teacher and her friend from Melbourne, arms akimbo, launch into a rendition of early David Bowie: "There's a starman waiting in the sky/ He'd like to come and meet us/ But he thinks he'd blow our minds?" Surreal but pitch-perfect, their performance...
When one looks at comedy today, Dane Cook’s shadow looms large. TIME Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2006. With his breakthrough comedy album, “Harmful if Swallowed,” on the verge of going platinum, Cook has made a huge leap from the days when he was selling that same album as a cassette tape on his website. But in a nationwide conference call held two weeks ago, Cook showed that such wild success hasn’t gone to his head. When asked what he would...
...wouldn?t for a second equate losing airplay for your new CD (which went platinum anyway) with losing a limb, your innocence, your mind or your life in a war. But both docs trace a similar journey: the awakening of political activism among young folks from the heartland who feel they must speak out against the war, come what...
...north of Newcastle. These bikers have no interest in the liquids on offer in the bright-yellow Plough Inn. Rather, they sip tea and coffee in a sun-drenched park behind the library. And the color of some of the men's hair: that isn't blond or platinum, it's gray. None of these blokes is younger than 45; a couple are over...