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...crews are lining up around the block to offer a good deed and a good cry. Heart-tugging giveaways have long been a staple of talk shows, but Oprah Winfrey upped the stakes last season with staggering bonanzas: new cars for an entire audience and gifts worth about $15,000 apiece for an audience of teachers. The Today show's "Live for Today" feature has sent a Salt Lake City, Utah, mom to sing on Broadway and an 81-year-old woman to the Kentucky Derby. Even Mark Burnett, producer of Survivor and The Apprentice, is developing a series...
...visits the West Los Angeles neighborhood where he grew up, Charles Levan feels sadness and disdain. One by one, the charming two- and three-bedroom houses that decorated the streets of his childhood are being bulldozed and replaced with bloated mansions on tiny lots. "Half the houses on our block have been leveled," says Levan, 34. "The thought of that happening to my house tugs at my heartstrings...
From the Flats in West L.A. to the suburbs of Chicago and Boston, any block with smallish homes near desirable workplaces, good schools and popular stores and entertainment is red meat for carnivorous builders. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in a 2002 report documented more than 200 historically significant communities in 20 states where teardowns were prevalent. In the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale, the report said, an astonishing 1,200 homes (20% of the supply) had been demolished since 1986. The trend has intensified since then. Nationally, as many as 75,000 of the single-family houses built last...
...This Is How It Goes, both about the lies men and women tell each other and both running in London, come with his signature caveats: trust no one, and there are no happy endings. "A good relationship equals a sh__ty story," LaBute says. "Drama's fundamental building block is conflict. You have to pitch people at one another. So my job is to look for ways to ruin a perfectly good day for people." This cheerful observation issues from a bear of a man with tortoiseshell glasses and a mass of curly hair. His voice is soft, but LaBute...
...ever get any work done with Filene's Basement at the end of the block...