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...hours later, the upfront that began with a fake Beatles ended with a surprise performance by The Who. The actual Who - surviving members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend - playing their songs that have been adapted as "CSI" themes (for "CSI: NY," it's "Baba O'Reilly"), for what amounts to a sales conference of ad men, brand managers and TV affiliate executives. It was one of the sadder things I've ever seen, and yet it was somehow appropriate. They closed with "Won't Get Fooled Again" - the "CSI: Miami" theme - which, for its time (1971), was an unusually conservative...
...schedule: a run-through of a Carlos Santana tune, some funk and blues improvisation and a tutorial in stage presence. "Make a face like you're mad, like you mean it," Wish hollers over the din of nine acoustic guitars while windmilling his arm Pete Townshend--style. Their lips snarling, their E chords ringing, his bandmates are already killing--and they have math tests today...
...paying subscribers worldwide. Postal inspectors, who arrested about 120 of the heaviest users in the U.S., forwarded the Landslide information to Interpol headquarters in Lyons, France. Interpol in turn identified buyers in 60 countries, including 7,272 in Britain. Some 1,200 have been arrested there so far, including Townshend...
...Though Townshend, who is divorced and the father of three children, has not been charged with a crime, he signed an agreement to return to answer any further questions from the police. Last year, according to thesmokinggun.com Townshend posted a lengthy treatise on his website describing how he had stumbled across a child-porn site while surfing the Web, was horrified by what he saw and made up his mind to help stop...
...Townshend's essay lends support to his claim that he has been campaigning against child porn for some time. But investigators will want to know if he was aware when he posted the treatise that the porn site he had visited had been busted. The Landslide trial in August 2001 was well publicized. Attorney General John Ashcroft himself announced it to the press. Townshend's Web account could be a self-serving effort to pre-empt suspicion. It could also turn out that his motives are more mixed than even he knows. If he was abused as a child, could...