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While much media hoopla has been made over Rivers Cuomo’s time at Harvard last semester, many other, significantly younger, undergraduates have their own visions of rock stardom. Most of these dreams fade well before graduation, as consulting jobs and graduate school applications loom, and electric guitars and drum sets gather dust, waiting for their demotion to keepsakes mounted ironically on Brooklyn loft walls...
...themselves. During a residency at Sydney College of the Arts in 1998, he began producing a series of porcelain busts, hand-cast and decorated in Ming and Qing Dynasty motifs. But it was an Australia Council?funded trip back to China the following year that equipped him for stardom. There, in a workshop outside Beijing, he became skilled in the 700-year-old techniques of cloisonn?, a painstaking process of copper-wire enameling which he applied to full body-casting. Human human?lotus, cloisonn? figure I, 2000-01, took out Australia's inaugural National Sculpture Prize. With a solo show...
...though, Mirwais' stardom has not brought him riches. At one Kabul bazaar, music sellers offer 57 different tapes of his performances, all pirated. At a recent wedding, an Afghan thrust a boom box into the singer's face, unabashedly recording him for future sales. Copyright laws, like road safety and gun control, have not yet gained much traction in Afghanistan...
...villain Shakti Kapoor told what he thought was an aspiring young actress: "I want to make love to you. And if you want to come in this line [of business], you have to do what I am telling [you] to do." Kapoor then went on to explain sex-for-stardom was accepted practice in the Indian film industry and named several prominent actors and directors who had slept their way to or through the top. The brouhaha only increased days later when India TV showed another hidden-camera recording, this time featuring the host of the Indian version of talent...
Robbins’ good humor is all the more surprising considering the powerful moral conscience that goes along with his earnestly dapper looks and rakish charm. Those qualities could have bought him a breezy, pleasant kind of stardom, but Robbins has chosen the high road with weighty films like 1995’s death-row drama Dead Man Walking and 1999’s Cradle Will Rock, about leftist theater in the Great Depression, both of which he wrote and directed...