A Downtown Star Who Aspired to Be Out of This World
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"The Nomi Song" chronicles the short and haunting life of Klaus Sperber, a trained classical singer from Germany who came to New York as a young man in the late 1970's.
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After a long flirtation with the glamorous job of being a New York rapper, Cam'ron has reinvented himself as one of hip-hop's most appealing surrealists.
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The pop star arrived in the Holy Land on Wednesday on a spiritual quest, including visits to the graves of revered rabbinical sages, and Israel was abuzz with excitement over the presence of a major star.
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Astronomers spot a space oddity in Earth's neighbourhood: a dead star with unusual characteristics.
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One of the pioneers of offshoring tries to cash in.
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His comfortable charisma has helped him bounce back more times than almost anyone in Hollywood. With Hairspray he's trying a different sex
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Voice-over work in Indiana wasn't too lucrative, so Daniel Geduld made a classic actor's move: He headed for L.A. And like most Hollywood dreamers, Geduld didn't get hired for much.
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The creator of  the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space traveled to New York to show detailed models of a new bigger, model.
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A pioneer of scatter art goes back to her hometown with more high-glamour fantasies.
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A Times reporter remembers a time when, in the shadow of the Twin Towers, art, creativity and open space flourished.
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By MICHAEL SMITH World Scene Writer  Shoot for the stars   Film focuses on the magic of believing    I can vividly remember as a first-grader, when the teacher asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, many of the boys proudly proclaimed astronaut as their career of choice.
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He returned to the city where he became an All-Star, and looked like the NBA&#39;s consummate point guard to remind Dallas fans what they may miss with his move to Phoenix.
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By DAVID KOENIG  DALLAS - Since long before leaving her native Iran as a teenager in 1984, Anousheh Ansari stared at the stars and dreamed of traveling closer to them.
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A Detroit outsider faces an industry slump and a tough economy.
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Guillermo Soehnlein grew up stargazing and dreaming of space travel. He's the founder of  the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs, which launched its first chapter in Washington in April 2003. -Ellen McCarthy
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LOS ANGELES  - Naomi Watts was once a  frustrated Aussie transplant trying to make a living in Los  Angeles as an actress. Times were tough and jobs were scarce.
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Arts & entertainment: Any self-respecting world city now needs outlandish buildings, but what about the past? Superstar architect Rem Koolhaas explains why even he gets nostalgic.