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...anti-environmental" groups, most of them with wonderfully benign-sounding names: the Abundant Wildlife Society of North America, the California Desert Coalition, the Evergreen Foundation, the Environmental Conservation Organization, Mothers' Watch. Maybe most of these really are benign. Dunno. I check out the National Wetlands Coalition, a big-biz coalition against wetlands, and the Global Climate Coalition. The cover of this last org has been blown for some time. It's a consortium including oil and car companies that are mightily interested in stalling enactment of the Kyoto accords on carbon-dioxide emissions. Will a high school student patching together...
...Moliere classic and gets a big yawn. To be sure, her performance betrays inexperience: slouchy and tentative instead of brittle and biting. But the production around her is smashing. Director Barry Edelstein puts slick designer duds on Crimp's smart update of the play to the phony '90s show-biz world, and the terrific Roger Rees, as Alceste, could teach any young actress a thing or two. Uma...Roger...
...dancing on a beer-slick living-room floor to music blaring over a p.a. system. They are, after all, the music business's target demographic--18-to-24- year-olds in touch with the trends, loving the latest tunes. Yet this archetypal collegiate partyscape has turned into a music-biz nightmare. That's because no one is paying for the music...
...work will probably be more subtle than, say, SEAN PENN doing a Coke commercial. "We're not in the advertising business; we're in the publicity business," notes PMK partner PAT KINGSLEY (the third PMK pooh-bah: LOIS SMITH). But by schmoozing with its new friends in the entertainment biz, says Dart, McCann-Erickson will be able to "tip off its clients to trends that are emerging"--in effect, a savvy little spy network at the heart of our cultural Zeitgeist. Synergy, baby, synergy...
...work will probably be more subtle than, say, Sean Penn doing a Coke commercial. ?We?re not in the advertising business; we?re in the publicity business,? notes PMK partner Pat Kingsley (the third PMK pooh-bah: Lois Smith). But by schmoozing with its new friends in the entertainment biz, says Dart, McCann-Erickson will be able to ?tip off its clients to trends that are emerging? -- in effect, a savvy little spy network at the heart of our cultural Zeitgeist. Synergy, baby, synergy...