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Ozymandias: 'Breaking Bad' Opera Given Life by One World Symphony's Sung Jin Hong
Botched Surgery Forces Farting Opera Singer Amy Herbst Into Early Retirement, U.S. Government Being Sued
A botched surgery may have effectively ended the career of a promising opera singer. And no, this is not just a load of hot air. Kentucky singer Amy Herbst, 33, may never belt out opera again after a failed episiotomy rendered her painfully incontinent--and I'm not trying to gas you up or anything--excessively flatulent. Alexandre Desplat Keeps the Score for Wes Anderson's First Non-Pop OST, 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
Trailers for Wes Anderson's new film The Grand Budapest Hotel have recently circulated as un-skippable ads on YouTube and pre-film entertainment in movie theaters. The fantastic Mr. Anderson may appear to be immovable--in that his Futura technicolor has become standard--but his use of popular music as a detailed brush stroke to the cinematic fanfare has changed from the Rolling Stones and Kinks-centric soundtrack for The Darjeeling Limited.