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Every socialite and CEO in Manhattan knows not to invite Sumner Redstone and Mel Karmazin to the same party. So when the twin egos of media giant Viacom unexpectedly shared the stage during a dinner for investors last Thursday, they generated quite a buzz. Some who have bet heavily on the success of Viacom--whose properties include CBS, MTV and Paramount studios--took heart that the feuding titans made a public show of getting along. "Their message was simple," Bear Stearns stock analyst Raymond Katz wrote in a report on Friday. "Their partnership, built on a mutuality of self-interest...
...within a four-mile radius. In the game, users play either terrorists or counterterrorists locked in a violent faceoff. Although Peake dislikes the kids on the terrorist side who give themselves handles like Osama's Mama ("That's not very respectful," he says, blowing them away), he loves the buzz he gets from the game. "When you're driving home, you're like ?woo-hoo!' and you tend to drive a lot faster," he says. "You think you're invincible...
...Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham (Sometimes There's Joy, Sometimes Sorrow), which features three generations of India's brightest movie stars in one of Bollywood's most expensive productions ever. In an industry that churns out some 500 films a year, few motion pictures have attracted as much positive prerelease buzz. "This is our Harry Potter," says Amit Khanna, president of the All India Film Producers Council...
...artistic aphasia of Yamaide's Nowhere mirrors the contrived nothingness of Martin Creed's The Lights Going On and Off, which won last year's Turner Prize. The Palais de Tokyo's curators seem intent on recreating the buzz that surrounded British conceptualism of the 1990s. But as last year's Turner awards so amply demonstrated, today's British scene has degenerated into a media circus. Conceptual art has always been about ideas. For it to be interesting, though, the ideas have to be new. Tired ironic commentaries on consumer society are not good enough. For all the post-postmodern...
...moments, she appears to be sleeping, ignoring the helicopter's incessant buzz and shutting her eyes to the beauty of the Cordillera Mountains below. She has taken off her reading glasses and put away the newspapers. Coup rumors, strife in the southern island of Mindanao, the landing of hundreds of American soldiers that her critics are calling an invasion?these are subjects she now deals with every day. She knows that beneath the daily cacophony assailing her?the sneers, the ingratiation, the pleading and cajoling, and the doubts, always the doubts?are the same questions that have haunted her presidency...