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...elected official with a national profile, who has the time and stamina for five hours of rehearsal six days a week. Most incumbents are too busy, most retired politicians are too frail, and most losing candidates are too forgotten. That pretty much narrows it down to someone whose political career was cut short after a big scandal and - since the show's core audience is older women - preferably one that didn't involve infidelity. (Put the tux back in storage, John Edwards...
...conflict," says Green. "If you cast our show that way, it would break." All the "stars" are partnered with professional dancers, who teach them how to dance--and how to win viewers' and judges' hearts and votes. Each pair gets pretty close. (DeLay is being mentored by Cheryl Burke, whose usual strategy is to make the audience "uncomfortable watching it because we are going to be so sexy.") After Katz got off a very giggly call with DeLay, his wife and his daughter, she called Green with her assessment: "He's adorable...
...with other music video games in the Rock Band and Guitar Hero series, this one invites players to take the musical parts of their favorite groups, playing replica instruments and scoring more points as they reach higher levels of dexterity. But winning is not the goal, as our group, whose ages ranged from 28 to ... quite a bit older, discovered. The idea is to form a musical community with your friends in the basement and the bands you venerate - even if, like most of our group, you've never played a video game before. (See pictures of the Beatles' final...
...four decades ago. Another anomaly: only in their earliest gestation, playing in Germany and in Liverpool's Cavern Club with Pete Best as their drummer, were the Beatles truly a Rock Band. For 40 years and more, that term has been applicable to the Rolling Stones and their spawn, whose songs are easily reproducible in their indefatigable concert tours and whose appeal is as much theatrical as musical. Truth is, the Beatles, even in their touring days, didn't care much for performing; they couldn't hear themselves play over their fans' screams. From 1966 on, they were studio musicians...
...nominated music producer of vintage R&B who is making a documentary on the New Orleans gospel icon Raymond Myles. TIME writer Gilbert Cruz, the only participant who knew his way around the Rock Band platform, took lead guitar. The vocals were shared by TIME Arts editor Radhika Jones, whose father Robert was a folksinger in the '60s and whose mom once dined with George Harrison, and yours truly, who saw the Beatles perform at Philadelphia's Convention Hall in 1964 and for months afterward affected an unintelligible Liverpudlian accent...