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...then he no longer has anything to prove. "Al's his own guy," says Heckman. "You can hear traces of Jon Hendricks in his scatting, some Joe Williams in his blues, some of Ray Charles' phrasing. But the unique timbre of his voice almost inevitably makes him sound unique." That kind of stature will help his forthcoming Christmas album - carols are the kind of thing that, let's face it, only an artist of real untouchability can pull off. It should also ensure a warm welcome for a new "best of" collection, out early next year. "I'm picking...
...what kind of painter he is. He's even begun to think of his mass-produced paintings as a means he used to avoid becoming a painter of another kind. "The spot paintings, the spin paintings," he says, "they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas...
...know the rest of that story. House prices are still falling, and Shiller has attained a remarkable status in financial circles. He's the guy who called the past two busts, a hero to market bears everywhere, a fixture on CNBC and in the nation's financial pages...
...this guy a genius, or just lucky? "There was some luck, but I don't want to say it's just luck," Shiller says. "It was also me thinking something crazy was going on here, and I just wanted to say it." This is not some Wall Street sharpie talking, but a floppy-haired, 62-year-old scholar with a gentle, meandering way of explaining the world. Shiller's new book, The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do About It, offers a succinct sample of this worldview, which we'll get to. First...
DIED As scenes of impending doom flash onscreen, his gravelly voice cuts through the explosive effects and thundering music with the familiar words "In a world where ..." Known as "Thunder Throat," "The Trailer King" or, more generally, "that movie voice-over guy," self-dubbed voice actor Don LaFontaine narrated more than 5,000 movie trailers and other promotions in his nearly 50-year career. Originally an audio engineer and editor, LaFontaine got his start behind the mike because of a scheduling mix-up. Soon he was recording voice-overs full time--as many as 60 a week--and narrating teasers...