Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...huddled inside a sound room harmonizing with a vocal coach, while down the hall, Take Five, a younger-than-'N Sync quintet for pre-preteen fans, is practicing footwork with a choreographer. Pearlman comes in to take a look, and the kids stop to give him hugs and shake his hand. "What's up, Big Poppa?" one of them asks (they actually call him that). "Did you get a haircut, man?" "You look like Tom Cruise," jokes another. Big Poppa beams...
...musical-comedy director of his generation. Not bad for a self-doubting perfectionist who, even though he was the only person ever to win an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy in the same season (in 1973, for Cabaret, Pippin and Liza with a "Z"), never quite managed to shake off the nagging suspicion that he was merely a purveyor of glitzy trash...
TUESDAY, JAN. 12: For a while, Krause and Reinsdorf take a break from the phone, in what they call a mourning period. "When you finally hear Michael Jordan is retiring, you don't just shake that off. That's 13 years of your life. You don't just go to Plan B," says Bulls p. r. director Tim Hallam...
...United Center, Jordan, sporting a bandaged finger that he hurt while cutting a cigar, says he made up his mind to retire at the end of last season, but kept quiet in order to support the union, which would have had a weaker position if it couldn't shake its premiere moneymaker in Stern's face. In the serious, unemotional, professional manner that characterized his career, Jordan says, "Right now, I don't have the mental challenges I've had in the past." His wife Juanita says he will do more car pooling...
...dash-mounted computer that's designed to accept simple voice commands, and will do everything from tune the radio or CD player to retrieve and read aloud e-mail or dial your cell phone from a contacts list. Sounds cool, but wait for the kinks to shake out; the person who demonstrated it for me couldn't get it to work properly...