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...Kraemer was an avid dancer, practicing at a dress rehearsal for an upcoming performance. During a transition in one of her pieces, another larger girl accidentally knocked her down. She suffered from spinal injuries and pain from that fall, and they’ve kept her from dancing ever since. “There’s basically nothing out there that can cure me,” says Kraemer...
...that can raise actual money risks chasing away actual readers. If you lose readership, you lose influence; you become less essential; you have to downscale your operation; and you lose more readership and thus even more money. The Times's plan seems to be to gingerly charge its most avid readers, then gradually see how much more coin it can grab without triggering that downsizing spiral. (See the best business deals...
...honorable, Spenser was so like his creator that the words poured out of Parker's fertile brain at an astounding rate. Beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript in 1974, Parker wrote prolifically; in recent years he published at least three books annually but penned more, an output that ensures avid readers will have new material to devour. Parker once said that while he tried to write slower, the books didn't get any better. He thought and spoke the way he wrote; his voice was Spenser's, and it was impossible not to be entertained by both of them...
...risen slightly since the days when it was thought to be a crowd of Beverly Hills florists and valet parkers loosely affiliated with foreign newspapers and magazines. But it remains a group of show business reporters, mostly, desperate for access to movie stars who, once a year, are avid to get free exposure by being on their show. The relationship is one of mutual parasitism, and deeply suspect. Live-blogging Sunday's Golden Globes show on her Deadline Hollywood web site, the asp-tongued industry reporter Nikki Finke wondered, "How many times is that annoying announcer going...
...avid reader of books about the FBI, Nicholson was reminded of Lewis in 2005 and admitted to cyberstalking him after he kept seeing Lewis' name pop up. Realizing he and Lewis were "practically neighbors" (Lewis moved to Cambridge after being released from prison), Nicholson met up with Lewis for a private, untaped interview in July 2007. He pounded Lewis with questions about the Tylenol killings until, Nicholson said, Lewis got pretty angry. Yet surprisingly, Lewis then granted Nicholson a public interview later that year...