Word: buzzed
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None are adherents of Scientology. Many are Jewish, provoking lots of buzz over why they endorsed a high-decibel comparison with the Holocaust. Marcus and others say they oppose any religious persecution. Several say they signed out of respect for the letter's author, entertainment attorney Bertram Fields, whose client list happens to include Scientology's most prominent celebrities, Tom Cruise and John Travolta...
...verse-chorus-verse format. Hollywood has taken note. The sound track to the upcoming movie Love Jones (starring Larenz Tate) has a neo-soul theme. So far neo-soul hasn't demonstrated huge commercial appeal. However, through canny marketing, Badu's CD, due out Feb. 11, has generated anticipatory buzz; and her first single, On & On, is already in the Top 40. "I'm a spiritual being," says Badu. "But I'm very much in touch with reality. I'm in touch with the business side of music. I know what it takes to be successful...
...Building buzz for an unknown singer on a little-known label is no easy task. Massenburg started by distributing 10,000 sampler cassettes featuring Badu to nearly everyone attending last year's Soul Train Music Awards; he also sent 2,500 vinyl copies of On & On to radio stations and clubs. The producer continued his campaign by persuading D'Angelo, the critically lauded neo-soul singer he had once managed, to join Badu in a remake of the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell duet Your Precious Love for the sound track of the movie High School High. Then, a few weeks...
...buzz ricochets like a hot stock tip from table to table on the spectacular dining terrace of the $600 million Phoenician resort hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona. Charles H. Keating Jr., his head held high, his gangly 6 ft. 5 in. frame clad in rolled-up blue jeans and a Windbreaker, strides in, startling a middle-aged couple at lunch. The man, still in golf togs, drops a steak knife and says, "Edith, I can't believe he's out of prison; it's the guy who built this hotel...
...frustration of toiling away for series that reap little glory. "We opened up Must-See TV on Tuesday nights," laments Wings' executive producer Mark Reisman. "At the end of this season we will have 175 episodes--that's a lot. But this show didn't create a lot of buzz in the beginning, and that just stuck. This is a happy set too, so it doesn't generate the press some other shows get for the wrong reasons. We are victims of normalcy." But at least not victims of cancellation...