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...Country Album award, a vindicated Maines said, "To quote the great Simpsons: Hah-hah!" LUDACRIS, meanwhile, wryly thanked two VIP hip-hop critics when he won Best Rap Album for Release Therapy. "Special shout-out to Oprah, special shout-out to Bill O'Reilly," the rapper said. "I love ya!" Jimmy Carter, at the center of a controversy over a book on Israel, tied for Best Spoken Word Album. Carter did not attend the ceremony. Perhaps he couldn't think of a suitable cartoon to quote...
...meaning of happiness and self-fulfillment. Talk about desperately hitting readers over the head with a hammer: This Is Not Chick Lit!And, inevitably, the Stepford lives of these women are interlaced with deeper hidden issues—much like “The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” and “Desperate Housewives,” though without the drugs and debauchery. Talented Juliet, who once dreamed of becoming a famous journalist or distinguished professor, refers to her husband as her “murderer.” Neat-freak Amanda can?...
...chanting grows more frenzied, and as the seated men raise their voices to join in with shouts of "Ya Hussein!" (Oh Hussein!) and "Islam Zindabad!" (Long Live Islam!), a few move to the middle of the circles, chain flails gripped in both hands. The chest pounding grows stronger, quicker and louder. Following the rhythm, the men in the middle crouch down, spring from the ground and use the full force of acceleration to slam the flails down on their exposed backs. Bruises bloom, dark and malevolent, but their faces register no pain, only grief, or an almost otherworldly conviction...
...driving, hard-edged drumming for the Rolling Stones has made him rock's premier percussionist, but it may surprise some fans to learn that Charlie Watts was stomping at the Savoy long before he ever got his ya-yas out. Watts, 45, who grew up in England listening to the gospel-tinged music of Cannonball Adderley and Art Blakey, had always dreamed of organizing an old-style jazz orchestra, but it was not until last year that the idea came together in a big 34-piece way. Last March in London, the soft-spoken stickman and his new group (including...
...number called "Santa Claus Is Back in Town," sounded a declaration of war against the Christmas-music tradition. As Elvis growled and screamed it: "Hang up your pretty stockin's / Turn off de light / Santa Claus is comin' / Down the old chimney tonight." Sexually explicit enough for ya? The title track - which lyrically is just another song about being alone or lonely on a holiday that's meant to reunite loved ones - was sung as a cry of sexual deprivation. Elvis' "White Christmas" borrows heavily from the 1954 doo-wop version by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters; but most...