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...score carefully," says Lang Lang. "When I start to play, my mind remembers the theory, but my heart starts a journey. I straddle both the composer's world and my own. When I can successfully merge the two, that's when the magic happens." His goal: to use his fame to build a cultural bridge between East and West, playing Chinese music to Western audiences and vice versa. "The West is hungry now for Chinese culture - like the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with its music by Tan Dun," he says. "And in China, young people are devouring Shakespeare. Music...
...gubernatorial campaign opened with a blast worthy of Terminator 3, with the leading man muscling to the front of the pack even as he stayed largely out of sight in his first full week as a politician. He also added a supporting actor: Rob Lowe, of West Wing fame, who signed on to coordinate celebrity endorsements and other duties. But holding an audience for two months, as opposed to two hours, is a new challenge for the actor. That's why his team is working behind the scenes to build a brain trust and an agenda that will convince voters...
...America squawking and whining and choking on its own bile. Befriended by such comics artists as R. Crumb, Pekar starts turning out stories for them to illustrate. These anticomics, from which American Splendor gets its title, together with some appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, grant him underground fame but never enough money to quit...
...fear that by bringing attention to meditation, your story might be taken by hard-driving overachievers as a more spiritually correct way to acquire fame, fortune and real estate--or just another fad to talk about over cocktails. HARVEY B. USSACH New Bedford, Mass...
When he was at the height of his first fame--with his top-rated radio program, his 12-year run in the top 10 at the movie box office--he set a tone for us junior-high wisecrackers that resonates to this day in our inner monologues and in our snap-dash dinner-table zappers. Give us enough gag writers (reportedly underpaid and overworked in his case) and a vast file of jokes (which he stored in a fireproof vault), and we thought we might, on a good night...