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...This is how he may have continued, a jobbing musician in a seedy netherworld, were it not for an epiphanic injury in 1992. His friend fell asleep at the wheel of a car and ran off the road, sending Ponnudorai, a passenger, headfirst through the window. Initially, he appeared miraculously unscathed and was sent home with a head full of stitches. But days later, he was unable to fret guitar chords or walk a straight line. Fresh tests revealed a massive blood clot covering an entire side of his brain, just waiting to rupture, and he was rushed into surgery...
...along to the creak of an old ceiling fan. Naturally left-handed, he taught himself to play on a right-handed guitar because it was cheaper than a model strung for left-handers (and this is how he still plays). A car crash in his early 20s ("we were road racing and I drove my car into a ravine") gave him the limp that he still walks with at 45; in his head are two drainage holes, covered merely by a thin layer of skin, bored during brain surgery, the legacy of another smash that almost killed him. He will...
...buildings Atget photographed have survived mostly intact. Atget's role in protecting them is difficult to quantify - but impossible to deny. The skill and passion he brought to that quest make "Atget, a Retrospective" not just a nostalgic trip back to a lost era, but also a living road map to one of the most romantic cities in the world. It is a city, as Atget realized, that cries out to be photographed...
...Whitney is visiting from his home outside Orlando, Fla., promoting his new movie out May 11, Delta Farce. He's in the middle of telling me how he passes time on the road - watching cattle auctions on his computer - when it becomes clear that Whitney and I both know our waiter, Russell, an aspiring screenwriter. (Often the really talented people in L.A. are the ones serving the rest of us hacks lunch). Russell helped write a movie in which Whitney is considering taking a role. Russell also lived in the same dorm with me at college. "What are the odds...
...preacher who leads the unionists, said the IRA's political allies, Sinn Fein, would enter government "over our dead bodies." Paisley is now the First Minister of Northern Ireland, heading the new administration alongside former IRA leader Martin McGuinness. These days he reckons the region is "starting upon the road - I emphasize starting - which I believe will take us to lasting peace...