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...more than 15 years and says he feels "a great affinity" for its people, certainly isn't letting the controversy stand in his way. "Indonesia has a wealth of cultures that are virtually unknown around the world," he says, and he is determined to introduce them to a wider audience. Instead of being undermined, the country's heritage can only be enriched when one of the most vitally creative men in theater revitalizes an epic tale that might otherwise have been forgotten...
...questioned the MFA’s recent controversial decision to rent 21 Monets from its collection to a Las Vegas casino gallery. Cuno, who says he would have been wary of renting the valuable paintings, describes the MFA’s argument that they are bringing art to a wider audience as a “disingenuous remark.” Had that really been their primary goal, he says, there were far more effective strategies—like mounting an exhibition in Boston’s poorer neighborhoods...
Inside the narrow hallway, employees rush by, swiping in their time cards and giving Laura and me skeptical looks—Laura’s camera and my open notebook are telltale signs that we’re a bit out of place. The entry dead-ends into a wider corridor, which stretches a quarter mile in one direction, providing access to Leverett. That’s not today’s Yellow Brick Road, however—we turn the other way, past offices crammed into tight corners and down the hall into the main area...
...vulgar phrase "Get your end in and get your friend in" isn't heard as much in football circles as it was 10 or 20 years ago, when teams had designated "promoters" who organized group sex sessions. With today's game more of a business chasing an ever wider audience, a veneer of sophistication has been laid over many of its unsavory traditions, just as spiraling passes and mesmerizing sidesteps obscure the game's savage core. Some players still consider group sex a privilege of their position. When a sexual encounter with a footballer takes a twist, "some women...
...Keith is playing up the extreme elements of his personality, he may soon get to do it for an even wider audience. The networks are after him to do a sitcom. "I'm stalking him," says former NBC president Warren Littlefield, who is currently an independent television producer and one of several executives trying to develop a Toby Keith show. "He's a personality, he's a performer, and he's funny. Last time I checked, that's what makes for great television." Keith acknowledges he's tempted. "I'd want my show to be funny but emotional...