Word: wunderkinds
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...known as the anxiety-addled taxi-driving Tom on Love My Way, the globe-trotting TV drama about Sydney-style family dysfunction on which he began life as one of the show's writers. But whether it was turning sober or 30, the past 18 months have seen this wunderkind transform into Renaissance Man. As artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company's new experimental wing, Wharf 2LOUD, Cowell has become Barnum to a new breed of theater writing with its "Vow of Clarity," for which he leads by example. Premiering on April 24, his new play Self Esteem...
...Long before he was an eccentric recluse charged with murdering an actress, Spector was the wunderkind of pop-rock production techniques, infusing such girl-group hits as "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Be My Baby" with his Wagnerian pomp and sonic drive. In this great set, arranger Jack Nitzsche smartly attaches vamps from RB (Sleigh Ride's "ringa-linga-linga-ding-dong-ding") and the Big Band era to the Christmas hits of the previous two decades (no spirituals here) and supplements the tambourine-and-drum pulse of the Spector sound with chimes, sleigh bells and a million maracas...
...Versailles gardens in France or a séjour at Thailand's Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle, where guests learn how to interact with elephants. Paris-based shoe designer Christian Louboutin likes to escape to a house he built on the Nile in Luxor, Egypt. New York City--based wunderkind designer Zac Posen recently ventured to Istanbul (a city currently experiencing a major luxury boom) to collaborate on a special clothing collection for the Turkish luxury-goods company Vakko...
...Dawson should not expect to find similar success this year against Yale’s much-improved underneath pass defense, spearheaded by first-year starting linebacker Bobby Abare ’09, whose four interceptions lead the Ivy League. As Dawson stands on the Harvard sideline during Yale possessions, wunderkind Mike McLeod ’09, from hard-hittin’ New Britain—not Canada, eh?—will reveal the Big Ten washout and his rushing record for the old news that they already...
First things first, Kim Edwards is not a Wunderkind. Yes, her very first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Penguin; 401 pages), has become the literary phenomenon of the summer. Despite its total lack of biblical codes, serial killers or Sudoku, The Memory Keeper's Daughter has just hit No. 1 on the New York Times paperback bestseller list. "It's a thing you almost don't dream about, because it seems so impossible to have it happen," Edwards says, on the phone from her home in Lexington, Kentucky...