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...Even during The Great Depression, Americans managed to scrape together enough nickels to take in escapist fare like Marx Brothers comedies and monster flicks. Box office grosses rose during five of the last seven economic downturns in the U.S. - including the '70s oil crisis and the burst of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s. It's not just a ticket price bump that accounts for the extra dough, either - the total number of movies people see in a year tends to rise in recessionary periods...
...according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. One way to maintain price levels is to offer deluxe products that pair a standard CD with a fancy book, live recording or DVD. Radiohead figured that out: aside from its pay-what-you-want download offer, the band flogged a special-edition box set of In Rainbows for $80 a piece. And a repackaged, "deluxe" version of Back To Black, bundling Winehouse's 2006 album with bonus tracks, shot to the top of Britain's album charts just this month...
...really get to the core of what moves and shakes us.” “Snow Angels” clearly communicates the emotional intensity that Green seeks to explore. Green knows that a lack of special effects in his film may hinder its performance at the box office, but he is satisfied with his final product. “It is rewarding to see people talking about the movie,” he said...
...lead. Ever the hacker, Jenkins unloaded on—what else—a first-pitch fastball and saw it soar out towards the tall net above the fence in left field. “As soon as I hit it, I took two hard steps out of the box and I looked up and I thought, ‘You know, I think that has a chance,’ and the more I looked at it I thought, ‘Yeah, that’s definitely got a chance,’ and it went over...
...ibbin Sheik Al-Ibbi, who was giving good intelligence to the FBI at Bagram in Afghanistan, but it wasn't the intelligence the Bush administration wished to hear. So they sent in the CIA, who duck-taped this man from head to toe, stuffed him in a small, plywood box, told him they were going to have unlawful carnal knowledge of his mother and shipped him off to Cairo, where he was waterboarded by Egyptian authorities. Lo and behold, he said that there was a link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. That information was used by Colin Powell...