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With more boutiques moving in, there's less reason for students and artists to spend much time here hanging out and frequenting the stores and restaurants which cater to them. Those places are already hanging by an economic thread, and with rich chain stores ready to pay higher rents and bump the small stores out of the Square, they'll soon be gone...
Those sorts of literal endorsements tend to make us cringe nowadays, whether at the primitivism, or the low state to which some public person has been reduced (George McGovern for Pritikin Longevity Centers), or the intimacy of real-life typecasting (manic-depressive Patty Duke touting a chain of for- profit psychiatric hospitals). Because consumers are too skeptical to put much stock in guarantees delivered by hired celebrities, and because major stars find it demeaning to recommend any product explicitly, mainstream celebritocentric advertising has become a subtle, weirdly stylized genre. Michael Jackson and Madonna don't do much more than appear...
There are always, however, new stars. TV's creative food chain lately has been turned upside down. Producers once dreamed up concepts and then looked for actors to flesh them out. Now, more often, the stars come first and the shows are built around them. It's the season of the star vehicle, the series built to a performer's specifications. What matters is the showcase, not the show...
Harvard's investment in the House of Blues, tothe tune of an estimated $25 million, will be usedby Isaac Tigrett, the founder of the House ofBlues who was also a cofounder of the successfulHard Rock Cafe chain...
...seriously rancid noir, with an archetypal plot: a loser on the run, hooking up with strangers who are very good at being bad. In Mexico, Alex (Kevin Anderson), a fugitive sailor, falls in with Missy (Rosanna Arquette) and Mills (John Lithgow), a married couple linked like felons on a chain gang. There is a slim mystery, with the federales in pursuit, but this is at heart a study of the cages three people have made of their lives. Mills says what they all feel: "I just can't get out of this goddam life...