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...made something critically acclaimed but commercially invisible. Then help came from an unlikely source: Amazon.com the burgeoning online book/CD/electronics/toy store and auction house, which just began a program to distribute indie films. Starting this week, people will be able to buy a videocassette of The Definite Maybe from Amazon for $14.95. "With movies, it used to be either you made it big or you ended up just showing it to your friends," says Paul Capelli, an Amazon spokesman. "This is a whole new avenue for filmmakers...
...will it be the road to riches? The Definite Maybe is unique in that it is fully owned by Sokolow and Robl, who will split the sales proceeds with Amazon. The movie was shot over 20 days in New York using mostly borrowed equipment. Sokolow and Lobl, who paid for the film to be recorded onto vhs cassettes, need to make $100,000 just to pay back investors. "I cannot impress upon you," says Sokolow, "how poor...
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami cures ailing tribal brothers with incantations given to him by a fearsome anaconda spirit that slithers up from Amazonian waters. At least that's the way Davi describes it. Like other native medicine men in the Amazon rain forest, Davi relies on hallucinogenic powders to reach the spirit world, but this leader of the Yanomami Indians also wields a more modern means of communication: a two-way radio. When an otherworldly voice squawks through the speaker, Davi wraps up his shaman's crown of toucan feathers, dons uncomfortable city clothes and walks to a clearing...
Forget Y2K - the big e-commerce countdown is the 160-odd shopping days until the shipping deadline for Christmas deliveries. Amazon is getting ready. Today the company added two new "stores" for toys and electronics...
...know why the virtual store has been building very real 800,000- square-foot warehouses across the country. Despite rumors that the king of online retail would get into software downloads or hardware sales by buying a company (Beyond.com or Onsale, respectively), Amazon developed the latest areas in-house. It shows, as Amazon extends its knowledgeable-storekeeper role to the new product offerings. Just as kindly advice from former Rolling Stone editors already suggests the essential music CDs every jazz or drum and bass lover should own, there are pointers on educational toys from Dr. Penelope Leach, a pediatrician...