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...More often than not, it turns out, Twitter's 100,000 members - twice as many as it had just a month ago, according to Twitter business development director Biz Stone - are simply killing time. Even Presidential hopeful John Edwards is on it, although he seems to be the only one thinking about more than lunch. As I type this, caroline is mulling over some Girl Scout cookies, ian_hocking is "Waiting for Jessica to arrive so we can eat!" and hlantz is "having a nice cup of Soft Starmint tea." Scintillating...
...decision to reformat its newscast and poach Couric may have been overhyped and gimmicky. But it was also optimistic, quixotic, even. Journalists dismissed CBS CEO Les Moonves, a show-biz guy and former actor, for taking it on himself to "blow up" the news. But at least he believed something few of them did: that the evening news could reverse its long decline, attracting brand-new viewers with all their original teeth, rather than just fighting over a shrinking...
...your show-biz gig looks a lot like every job in America...
...Martin Scorsese arrives, clutching his first Oscar after approximately 7 bazillion years in the biz, Best Director for The Departed. "People say it's your year, your year," Scorsese says. "This comes as an extraordinary surprise. I'm just used to not winning...
...coming out show-biz suicide for O'Donnell? Every celebrity should destroy her career so well. She has shown Middle America that lesbians can love women without hating men. And she has used her sexuality--the lesbian is Switzerland in the battle of the sexes--as entrée to discuss such concepts as the idea that sexual preference is a continuum, not an either/or...