Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ripley, southern England. It was a surprise ceremony for the guests, who thought they were attending the child's baptism. This is the guitarist's second marriage: he divorced Patti Boyd, whom he had "stolen" from George Harrison, in 1988. DIED. JULIA PHILLIPS, 57, Oscar-winning producer of The Sting and Taxi Driver and author of the New York Times bestseller You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again; in Los Angeles (see Eulogy). DIED. TAKAHASHI ASAHINA, 93, musical director of the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra; in Kobe. Asahina received Japan's prestigious Order of Culture in 1994, becoming only...
...Hollywood lost one of its most scorned pariahs as well as one of the few outrageous personalities left in an increasingly corporate, risk-adverse industry. A film producer who made history as the first woman ever to win a best picture Oscar (for The Sting in 1973), she became downright infamous after her 1991 autobiography, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, mercilessly blasted the biggest names in showbiz. A typically scathing tidbit: describing how Warren Beatty had asked if she and her pre-teen daughter would join him in a threesome, Phillips allegedly replied, "Warren...
...Kids have staked out all the hotels around town where the performers are staying. You can now tell which acts are staying where by whose albums are being clutched by the throngs of fans outside the lobby. R.E.M. and, apparently, Sting, are at my hotel, The Copacabana Palace. Everything is far away from everything else - it's a half-hour ride to the Inter-Continental Hotel to pick up my passes for the concert...
...NEXT: Rock in Rio begins with an opening day that features Gilberto Gil, Sting, Daniela Mercury, James Taylor and, in all probability, lots of overpriced concession-stand food...
...outrageous sum for the ride from the airport to my hotel. Ahhh, I'm feeling at home already. I'm in town to cover the Rock in Rio Festival, a two-weekend-long extravaganza (January 12-14, January 18-21) featuring a wide array of international acts (Beck, Sting, Papa Roach, Dave Matthews Band, Britney Spears) as well as Brazilian acts (Gilberto Gil, Daniela Mercury, Carlinhos Brown, Tom Ze, Nacao Zumbi). The organizers have billed it as one of the largest concerts in history, with five stages, more than 150 acts scheduled and more than one million attendees expected...