Word: punk
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...people keep secrets better than ASHTON KUTCHER, host of MTV's hidden-camera show, Punk'd. So it was a surprise to most outsiders when Kutcher, 27, and his girlfriend of two years, DEMI MOORE, 42, wed in a private Kabbalah ceremony, joined by 100 of their closest friends and family (including Bruce Willis), in their Beverly Hills home. Kutcher inherits responsibility for Moore's three daughters by Willis--the girls already call Kutcher MOD, for "my other dad"--so at least we know he's not in it just for the arm candy...
...Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, it's 11 in the morning, and his audience is largely white and overwhelmingly nerdy. West rips through All Falls Down and Gold Digger, but he barely gets a head bob out of those people. When he raps, "If you aint no punk, holla 'We want prenup!,'" not a single, solitary soul hollas back...
...seem to be citizens of some alternative time frame spliced from the idealism of the '60s and the musical free-for-all of the late '70s. Their songs have the phantom soul of the Band, the Celtic wonderment of their compatriot Van Morrison and some of the assertiveness of punk, refined into lyrical morality plays...
...Bono, however, that all eyes stay fixed. U2 carries the day, but he carries the show. That has always been the way, ever since the band's first scuffling days in Dublin during the punk whirligig."They were very bad," admits Manager McGuinness. "But it wasn't the songs that were the attraction. It was the energy and commitment to performance that were fantastic even then. Bono would run around looking for people to meet his eyes...
...band, which had gone through a variety of names, including the Hype, was better with chutzpah than with chords. "You see," says Mullen, "we couldn't play. We were very, very, very bad." In the first hot flush of punk, this did not greatly matter, and after seeing them in 1978, McGuinness, who had done mostly film-production work up until that moment, agreed to become their manager. "It looked to me like they would be a great rock band," he says now, adding, "I've only had to be right once...