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...with surprise, as well as a sigh, that the entertainment community greeted Hirschfeld's death last week. (Of what? Surely not of old age!) Obituarians too easily write that one man's passing marks the death of an era, but it can be written in Al Hirschfeld's case that this is the death of two or three Broadway eras. He came to his calling - caricaturist to the stars - in the 20s, when Broadway was the face of American sophistication and sizzle. He was there when Gershwin presented "Porgy and Bess," when Tennessee Williams drove his "Streetcar," when "Guys...
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...winner's income. He can then deploy one of the songwriters he manages--including Cathy Dennis, who with Rob Davis co-wrote the Kylie Minogue hit Can't Get You Out of My Head--to pen tunes for his singers. (Dennis helped write Clarkson's No. 1 single.) And there's revenue from merchandise, like T shirts, and from Idol concert tours...
...summer of 2001, six other women in Wuhan were attacked by a man with a knife, four of them fatally. The city's newspapers didn't cover the cases?they almost never write about unsolved crimes. But word spread rapidly through the local grapevine, and a rumor arose that the killer targeted his victims because they were dressed in red. "Everybody was so terrified of the Red Dress Killer," recalls a woman selling tomatoes in Wang's neighborhood, "that we started wearing a lot of blue...
...abuse he now sings about. "I can still remember what they used to call me: f___ing Moroccan," he says. Raymzter's music reflects his dual heritage. Most songs have a typical Dutch sing-a-long rhythm with tinges of more exotic North African melodies thrown in. Raymzter usually writes the music first. Once he's got the rhythm right, he'll work out the lyrics and then call up Baudo - who's produced CDs for top hip-hop names on both sides of the Atlantic - to flesh things out. Most of Raymzter's friends and the people he works...