Chris Rock and Herb Alpert

Published: Nov. 25, 2013, 5 a.m.

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Chris Rock is one of the greatest comic talents in the world, but when he arrived on Broadway to perform his first play,\\xa0The Motherf***ker in The Hat, he did not yet know how to properly cross a Broadway stage. Rock says that his life has mimicked each role in the play\\u2014both the heart-breaker and the heartbroken\\u2014and he tells Alec that performing in the show was the hardest thing he has ever done.

When Herb Alpert started playing trumpet with his band Tijuana Brass, Woody Allen and George Carlin were the opening acts. In 1966, The Brass outsold The Beatles. Alpert went on to co-found A&M Records, where he identified and signed some of the industry\'s greatest talent: The Carpenters, The Police, and Cat Stevens. He and his partner sold A&M in 1989 for half a billion dollars. He says he\\u2019s looking for the same thing as everybody else\\u2014a life of purpose and meaning.\\xa0

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