psy, 44, remains confused over the success of his hit song ‘Gangnam Style’. The song reached top positions in the charts worldwide in 2012, it helped K-pop to break through in America, among other places, and has now been viewed more than 4.6 billion times on YouTube. For years he tried to emulate the first hit. “Let me just do another one,” he said to himself over and over again. It didn’t work that well. “The songs are written by the same person, the dance moves are by the same person and they’re performed by the same person. Everything is the same, so what was so special about that one song?” said Psy, who now runs his own label in South Korea , the New York Times. “I still don’t understand it to this day.”
Kate, 40, Princess of Wales wants to draw more attention to gaps and weaknesses in early childhood education. “Not enough is being done,” wrote the 40-year-old in a guest post in the British daily TheTelegraph. “If we are to create a healthier and happier society for future generations, we must recognize and understand the unique importance of the first five years of life,” Kate continued. The brain develops faster during this time than in any other phase of life, as science now knows.
Anne Hathaway40, actress and Oscar winner, never had a plan B. “I am a person who sets clear goals and from a young age I had the goal that I wanted to be an actress. There were no alternatives – neither a doctor nor a marine researcher,” she said Augsburg General.
Ulrich Wickert, still 79, TV journalist and author, thinks that Germans could learn from the French and French from the Germans. “What I love about the French on a daily basis are two things: the humor – the esprit. And discretion – you don’t impose yourself on others,” said the former “Tagesthemen” moderator of the German Press Agency in Hamburg. “The French could certainly learn classic virtues such as order from us Germans. They also envy us for our regions as cultural and economic centers – for them, Paris is the sole focal point. So maybe the French could learn something from our culture of diversity.” Wickert, who grew up partly in Paris as the son of a diplomat and later reported from there as head of the ARD studio, recently published his seventh Jacques Ricou thriller entitled “Die Schatten von Paris”. He lives in Hamburg and southern France with his wife Julia Jäkel and two children. Next Friday he will be 80 years old.