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...shooting himself in the head with a pistol. Another video shows a chubby kid waving a golf-ball retriever like a light saber. The kid, Ghyslain Raza, was 15 at the time. Three of his classmates found the footage and put it online, and it became an instant Internet classic. Soon strangers started making fun of Raza on the street. The San Francisco Giants put the video on their Jumbotron. Raza, now 18, became known as the Star Wars Kid. He also became depressed and dropped out of school. Eventually he sued the classmates who had found the video...
...Since that night in 2001, he has danced in commercials for 7-Eleven, Heineken, Pepsi and Apple's iPod. He has shown his stuff on Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel and Steve Harvey. He did a Volkswagen ad that consists entirely of his gloriously funky reinterpretation of Gene Kelly's classic Singin' in the Rain routine. He even did a cameo in You Got Served. "The choreographer had seen [the video] and wanted me to be in the movie," Bernal says. "That's usually how it works. I don't have to audition. And even if I do, they just want...
...with that, the Pentagon chief began to tap dance. His reply, according to a Republican Senator in the room, was a classic Rumsfeldian fugue--complete with interesting hand gestures--mentioning reductions and foreign troops and steady progress. Or, as the G.O.P. Senator described it later, "it was a five-minute, total nonanswer, just unbelievably obtuse." Another Republican Senator put it this way to TIME: "Rumsfeld believes in his own magic...
...attended the 10 p.m. screening. The MAC advertised the “MAC Attack” as “one of the year’s most dramatic events.” For $5, students purchased grandstand and a limited number of in-pool seats to watch the classic film projected onto a screen with a movie theater-like volume of 2,400 watts. The event, funded mainly by a grant from the Student Activities Fund, was organized by Oliver A. Horovitz ’08, with the help of a committee he formed. “This event...
...Best for the Best.” While the tracks here don’t deal exclusively with the stereotypical singer/songwriter subject matter, he is after all still a singer/songwriter: the disc is dominated by tales of music and love, sprinkled with religion, politics and literary references to Shakespeare, classic poetry, and the Bible. Ritter also dashes in instrumentation unexpected for his genre, and with an impressive act of arrangement, it works well. The record-opener “Girl in the War” puts the mandolin to such use, while catchy “Wolves” follows...