Michael Emerson: “I’ve always liked playing ambiguity.”
Emmy winner Michael Emerson loves Captain Beefheart lyrics, hates athletic balladeering, triggers a House of Pain ringtone on his wife’s cell — and recommends Bach if you’re planning an extended stay in the Hatch.
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Gene Simmons: Interview
The fire-breathing Kiss bassist and entrepreneur gives us valuable life lessons and a peek at the Family Jewels. By Mike Errico So, tell us a secret: How did you get Shannon Tweed to not marry you but still stay around? Guys have become such wimps, it just shocks me. My God, what happened to the alpha male? If you wanna marry her, say, “OK, I wanna marry, but let’s talk about if we get divorced,” because statistics say you will. So you must ask her the most important question, which is: If you want money, let me know how much. Let me make an educated decision. You’ve said, “Women are great housekeepers: They get to keep the house.” Well, every hotel you’ve all been to is by definition a cohabitation agreement. You sign on the dotted line, and you agree to abide by the rules of the owner of the hotel. When you leave the hotel, you don’t take half the hotel with you. But by now you must have reached the point … You’re about to ask, “Well, surely by now you must be married.” At the outset, you have something called a cohabitation agreement that supersedes and nullifies all laws of the land, including common law. Two people have individual counsel, and they both decide the rules of the relationship. And if, in the rules, it says, “If we separate, you don’t get a penny,” those are the rules. Do people come up to you randomly and remind you that you’ve slept with them? Oh, often. I’ve had thousands, I mean thousands, of not the sleeping kind... read more
Bears as Art and Social Criticism: Competition
There is no scale upon which a relevant measurement is possible.
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Bears as Art and Social Criticism: Context
Everywhere we go, we are different.
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