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...original Hollywood superagents. Long before Mike Ovitz ruled, the gentler, more charming Freddie Fields succeeded in producing (American Gigolo, Glory) and in founding First Artists, one of the first talent-owned production companies. But his claim to fame was establishing CMA (Creative Management Associates) with David Begelman. Now part of powerhouse agency ICM, CMA was home to such A-listers of the 1960s and '70s as Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Steve McQueen, Woody Allen, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Fields...
...have a lot of talent, and a lot of skills, but we need to want it more,” sophomore Jeremy Lin said...
...think Britain has been a hotbed of talent for rock 'n' roll over the decades? -Michael Diaz, New York City[Rock] came from America and [with] the Beatles, it started going back there. Now, the problem is that a lot of [British] bands are trying to conquer America, but America has [good] bands already. When we came out, we were this big, crazy pop band with these weird haircuts-which really weren't that weird, but that is what they said. We got lucky...
...music was frequently campy, but it never felt forced and was heartfelt even when it wasn’t profound. The-Dream’s loverman persona is as plastic as his production. Car/sex metaphors were tired even in the early ’80s, but Prince had the talent to make it work. The-Dream simply doesn’t. —Reviewer Jake G. Cohen can be reached at jgcohen@fas.harvard.edu...
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's talent for doing the unexpected came through in the initial days of the first of his trials for murder, graft and abuse of power. Hours into the presentation of witnesses and evidence, Fujimori was given the chance to speak, asked by the judge to enter his plea of guilt or innocence. After serenely requesting a bit of extra time, Fujimori launched into an outraged howl, screaming at the surprised courtroom that he had saved Peru and rejected out of hand the charges. "I totally reject the charges. I am innocent. I do not accept...