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...would have thought that under the hard business exterior of mega-investor Warren Buffett lies the soul of a wannabe rocker? A surreal video making its way around the Net shows Buffett doing his best imitation of Guns N' Roses rocker Axl Rose, complete with waist-length hair, a purple bandanna, a black leather jacket and Axl's signature red plaid kilt from the '80s - all as part of an eye-catching video for Geico, the auto-insurance company owned by Berkshire Hathaway. And Buffett sings too. O.K., he attempts to sing. (See the best Super Bowl commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Buffett Plays a Guns N' Roses Rock Star | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...album 5:55, a collaboration with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, topped the French charts, with critics praising her as a true chanteuse. For her latest album IRM - which will be released on Jan. 26 in the U.S. and most of Europe - she teamed up with eclectic alt-rocker Beck. "He wrote all of the music and lyrics, but we really had an exchange. The album is very close to me," she says. In sessions at Beck's studio in Los Angeles, Gainsbourg tried to inspire him with books like Through the Looking-Glass. He played her beats, watched her react...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlotte Gainsbourg: On the Mend and Finding Solace in Music | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...waterskiing accident. While the procedure was a success, Gainsbourg was so rattled by the incident that she insisted on undergoing brain scans for several months afterward to make sure she was all right. To overcome her paranoia, she eventually threw herself into her music, teaming with eclectic alt-rocker Beck to record her third album, IRM, released in the U.S. on Jan. 26. Gainsbourg also took a lead role in the Lars von Trier film Antichrist, which required her to attack Willem Dafoe with a shovel and simulate mutilating her own genitals. For her troubles, she won the Best Actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Chanteuse Charlotte Gainsbourg | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

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