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...Berlusconi both rose to fame from the outskirts of Milan, where in the late 1950s each wooed audiences with song. Berlusconi was a part-time crooner, singing French ballads for tips on Mediterranean cruise liners. Celentano was a guitar-plucking rebel in blue jeans who all but invented Italian rock 'n' roll. He went on to launch a successful film career, later rediscovered his Roman Catholic faith, and reached iconic status in part thanks to his periodic returns to television, where he mixes cabaret, celebrity chat and his own provocative monologues on everything from God to garbage management. "Celentano...
...Wonderland--in the style of his friend photographer Peter Beard (Kilmer has lots of impressive friends, from Gorby to Bob Dylan) and has exhibited the collages in galleries in Italy and Japan. He carries an idea journal everywhere, jotting thoughts for poems as well as songs for the rock album he intends to put out soon. He would like to do another musical onstage (he was Moses in last year's short-lived Ten Commandments). He's in the middle of writing three screenplays; one about Mark Twain; one a tragicomedy about divorce; and one about Mary Baker Eddy...
...world, you give fantastic sums of money, more than $1 billion this year alone. But he also gives the brainpower that helped him make that money in the first place, hunting down the best ideas for where to fight, how to focus, what to fund. If you're a rock star like Bono, you give money. But you also give the hot white lights that follow you everywhere, so that they shine on problems that grow in shadows. If you're Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, you raise money--but you also give the symbols of power...
...erudition and scope, Illicit has one vexing flaw: its lack of substantial original research. Na?m is an armchair tour guide, relying mostly on well-worn news stories and official reports. For a book on the underground trade in sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, Illicit is disappointingly dry. The climax is not a memorable glimpse inside a smuggling ring, but a raft of policy suggestions such as better coordination among government agencies and improved international cooperation?hardly page-turning stuff. Still, Na?m succeeds in presenting a clear account of how illicit commerce works and what its consequences are. In doing...
...writers. Written by Ben E. Green ’06 and Charlie Miller ’08, and directed by Josh Clay Phillips ’07, this musical homage to the ’80’s revolves around a boy on a quest to become a rock star...