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...secret that every network is exploring ways to deliver content via other platforms, be it the Internet, cell phones or iPods (this week Survivor producer and reality TV impresario Mark Burnett announced he's working on an Internet project with Yahoo! and AOL, a division of Time Warner, the parent of TIME). But NBC is hoping that ?StarTomorrow? can marry the best of the old and new mediums, giving younger audiences the kind of interactive online experience they like with the already popular music competition format. Viewers will be able to go to NBC.com and watch ?StarTomorrow...
...quite that simple. Cash was 6 ft. 2 in. and held his guitar like a long rifle, with his strumming arm draped around the bottom of the body. Phoenix is 5 ft. 8 in. When music supervisor T-Bone Burnett told him his basic mastery was all right but his strumming was all wrong, it took weeks to relearn how to play. There was also the matter of singing. Phoenix has a warbling, slightly nasal voice that needed extensive training to hit Cash's rumbling lows. "He was pretty horrible when he started," says Dan John Miller, leader...
...lends heft to his lyrical excursions. It also gives the spirituality and frequent Christian symbolism of the songs ("See the thorn twist in your side"; "I stand with the sons of Cain") a welcome grounding in earthly delights. "Their show is the best around," remarks an appreciative T Bone Burnett, a guitar player and record producer (Elvis Costello, the BoDeans) of no mean skill. "U2 is what church should be." Lest such praise become a little burdensome, Larry Mullen keeps this reflection handy: "At the end of the day, it's just rock 'n' roll...
...people like it." Mullen admits, "I do believe our music is special. But you have to separate the music from the people. The music is special, but I don't think we are. We are ordinary people." They are earnestly going about trying to "demythologize" themselves, as T Bone Burnett puts it, cutting themselves down to manageable size, the better to handle their superstar stature. It is a posture that is both defensive and pragmatic, disarming and perhaps just a shade desperate. "People respond to our naivete," Clayton insists. "I think they see four guys from Ireland...
...cars for an entire audience and gifts worth about $15,000 apiece for an audience of teachers. The Today show's "Live for Today" feature has sent a Salt Lake City, Utah, mom to sing on Broadway and an 81-year-old woman to the Kentucky Derby. Even Mark Burnett, producer of Survivor and The Apprentice, is developing a series in which Touched by an Angel's Roma Downey and Della Reese help people through problems...