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...Bollywood masala?savory cultural stew?restores melodrama to its Greek-tragedy and Italian-opera roots: melody-drama, in which emotions too deep to be spoken must be sung. Imagine Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich dancing around the utility company's lawyers while lip-synching a tune sung by Faith Hill, and you have a hint of the divine delirium that is Bollywood...
...partner's belt-notches; Dick didn't care about that. But like the demanding city editor on a daily tabloid, he did want Larry to deliver copy. Many people who knew Rodgers said he had the soul of a banker. He went to work, wrote a gorgeous, chromatically sophisticated tune, went home (or to an upper room in Sardi's). He was the fastest composer in the East; as Noel Coward said, mixing envy and awe, "The man positively pees melody." Speed was essential in the mid-20s, when Dick and Larry finally got cooking and, in 1926, produced...
...dialogue about each other, it would have been so saccharine. What I'm assuming about the scene is that's the call that I've heard since I was 8 years old, and it's time to go sit down at the piano and play this tune with quote-unquote Dad. We knew it was going to be that moment that speaks volumes about our relationship and our past history...
...less is more" philosophy. "You have to keep the product intact," he says. Try his tasting menu, a rambling affair with more than a dozen dishes, and you'll experience myriad flavors. But each part of the meal will only have a few, something intended to be "in tune with the spirit of the time," he says. "It got me the third star this year." Pressure Cooking michelin giveth, and michelin taketh away. The loss of a star can be devastating. "I've got a friend who lost his [third star] two years ago, and he still hasn...
...accused of sex crimes if I weren't famous?" Just two weeks after being arrested on 21 counts of child pornography for allegedly videotaping himself having sex with a 14-year-old, the R. and B. singer released a song explaining how he has been wronged. The soulful tune, which is being played on those stations across the country that have not yet shunned him, is titled Heaven, I Need a Hug and will be included on an upcoming album that his lawyers are undoubtedly hoping does really well. The lyrics include, "It's all because I'm famous...