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...anyway,” 50 Cent sings in “Life’s On The Line,” even though it’s not true. We like 50 Cent, his brashness, his boldness, even the bulletproof vest that has become his trademark fashion accessory. He may not enunciate as well as Em, or rhyme as wittily as Snoop, but for now he’s getting rich, he has two songs in the top 50—and what else matters...
...birth from his fishmonger father--believes there is a season for every purpose, and vice versa. Growing up Cockney, in the Rotherhithe section of London, taught him to observe life in the raw: to retain those images and that accent, which, along with the spectacles, became his trademark. Doing rep gave him lessons in the star's gift of getting noticed, and the actor's craft of hiding in plain sight. "In rep it's a different play each week," he says. "You'd be the butler one week, the lord the next, the Cockney handyman the week after...
...those in the sportswriting community, Elliott Prasse-Freeman is notorious for snapping off colorful quotes, flashing his trademark grin while speaking his mind more frankly than Harvard coach Frank Sullivan might sometimes care to hear...
COED NAKED A CAPPELLA. The rivalry returns to the stage as two of Harvard’s most renowned coed a cappella groups offer a night of high-energy performances, though without nudity. The Callbacks and the Opportunes will both feature innovative new arrangements and their trademark soulful styles. Friday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets $10 general, $7 for students/senior citizens, and available through the Harvard Box Office (617) 496-2222, or from any Callback/Opportune. Sanders Theater, Memorial Hall...
...Bachelorette is not morally instructive for grade-schoolers. But wallowing in the weaknesses and failings of humanity is a trademark of satire--people accused Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain of being misanthropes too--and much reality TV is really satire boiled down to one extreme gesture. A great reality-TV concept takes some commonplace piety of polite society and gives it a wedgie. Companies value team spirit; Survivor says the team will screw you in the end. The cult of self-esteem says everybody is talented; American Idol's Simon Cowell says to sit down and shut your pie hole...