Word: guested
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...followed the Beatles template. JB 3D is basically A Hard Day's Night, but with the proportion of onstage to backstage material reversed: more of the former, less of the latter. It's constructed as a day in the life, following the lads from early morning through some guest appearances, an interlude in a park and then the big show. Like the Beatles movie, this one has the motifs of captive celebrity - the brothers lithely escape from fans chasing them down city streets - and of the stars taking their fame with sensible aplomb, as if clarity comes only...
...This year, the Harvard Foundation honors celebrity guest comedian Dan Aykroyd, original cast member of “Saturday Night Live” and the co-creator of the Blues Brothers. “We admire Dan Aykroyd for his development of the House of Blues and his contribution to making sure that African American music and blues are things that people are made aware of,” says Jacqueline C. Hairston ’10, co-director of the afternoon show...
...According to the Harvard Foundation, the choice of Aykroyd as celebrity guest helps to achieve the two major goals of Cultural Rhythms. “The show’s aim is showcasing diversity by putting Harvard performing groups on a big stage where students and those in the Boston area unable to attend smaller shows can see them,” says Hairston. However, the Harvard Foundation also hopes to provide entertainment to students and the general community with this production. “We’re going to keep this show consistently fun and funny...
...guitarist Nick Zinner. Telephone dial tones, the chanting voice of M.I.A. and a tribal drum beat transform Zinner’s guitar into an infectious rhythm. Spank Rock’s frenetic rhymes provide the verses to round out a solidly danceable hit. The clear cohesion between the various guest acts and the production of N.A.S.A., which works so well on “Gifted” and “Watchadoin?,” is exactly what is lacking on the less successful tracks. The project at times gets caught up in its own concept—picking unexpected...
...wonder if the people fighting for the right to bring guest to dinner have ever asked their guests if they actually want to eat in Lowell. With that tiny servery and hidden cereal bar, it’s a pretty big downgrade from all the other river dining halls...