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...measure a rock group's popularity by the diversity of rumors it has spawned, then the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are the biggest band in the world. According to various reputable music magazines, singer Karen O hates German people; drummer Brian Chase rigged an MTV contest to win a Bon Jovi concert in his backyard; and the band's new record, Show Your Bones, is a concept album about O's cat. To set things straight, O, whose seldom-used last name is Orzolek, digs Germans; Chase has never won anything; and Coco Beware, while a real...
Complicating matters further is Karen O's status as a completely undeniable Jagger-Bowie-Blondie type of rock star. (In a corner of a Manhattan restaurant darker than a crypt, her spiky air makes her subject to countless gape-mouthed stares.) In the nurturing United Nations dynamic the band aspires to, O is the U.S., and when she moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and pushed to hire producer Sam (Squeak E. Clean) Spiegel, the brother of her then boyfriend, director Spike Jonze, Zinner and Chase reluctantly went along. The trio recalls the writing process--which did not go well...
...splash at this restaurant I'm opening in Los Angeles, which is gonna have a huge pizza oven ... So let's make sure we have 20 of them there, and we can use them all day." Turning your restaurant into a marketing tool works if you're Hard Rock Cafe, but it isn't clear how well it works at the high end. Batali seems to have few qualms: when an assortment of spoons, turners, ladles and skimmers is shown for his approval, Batali says, "All of this will be on display at Mozza in Los Angeles, and it will...
...could have predicted that we would have 20,000 people in Arizona or half to three-quarters of a million in Los Angeles." Something almost as remarkable started to happen inside the Capitol. One by one, Senate colleagues started coming to him privately whom McCain had written off as "rock-ribbed" opponents to the legalization that he and Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy had been working on for a year. There were maybe 10 of them, McCain says, all asking the same questions: "Isn't there a compromise on this? Isn't there some way to come together on this...
...behind them. A Hispanic male in his 30s or 40s got off, grabbed both women and began kissing them. The more they resisted, the angrier he became. He finally punched Sister Mary Louise in the right eye so hard that she fell and hit her head on a rock, leaving her dazed. While holding Sister Helena Maria so tightly by the rosary knotted around her neck that she gasped for breath, he raped her first and then raped and sodomized Sister Mary Louise and raped Sister Helena Maria a second time. The man pulled the veil over Sister Mary Louise...