Barry Manilow

While it seems celebs hardly work for their money, their pre-fame resumes tell dramatically different stories: rife with tales of cleaning toilets, delivering beer and asking sweetly, "Would you like fries with that?" Turns out that America's most glamorous hotshots held down all kinds of...

Barry Manilow has a new mission with his music --driving teenagers crazy. A mall in the New Zealand town of Christchurch is making plans to pipe in the mellow-musicman's tunes as a way to rid its public area of teens who are unruly and intimidating its patrons, which is in turn hurting its sales.I...

This post is part of our series on people, places and things that have found new life in 2008. When I found out last year that The Police was regrouping for a reunion tour, I immediately called my rock concert buddy to make plans to see the show. "I feel like I'm 17 again, " I told her, giddy at...