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Sports attorney Kenton Edelin, who represents New York Liberty star Rebecca Lobo, says Holdsclaw's endorsement options are "unlimited." Estimates of her earning potential, including marketing, range upward to $2 million to $3 million a year. Now, as Holdsclaw prepares to graduate, agents clamor in the wings, and executives from the pro teams pray and hold their breath. Nike and Adidas have already made their interests known...
...have we regressed to treating homosexuality on stage with even less acceptance than during Elizabethan England? Protesters will clamor that surely we were able to make at least some cinematic progress with 1993's Academy-award winning film "Philadelphia." But this movie's success only illustrated that audiences across the nation were finally prepared to sympathize with a dying homosexual AIDS patient. Love had not yet entered the picture. And now, almost a decade later, screenwriters alter history and studios still shy away from a homosexual love story because of fear that it won't sell...
...There was no public clamor to play," says Professor of History William E. Gienapp, who teaches History 1653, "Baseball and American Society, 1840-Present." "The other sports, particularly baseball, could learn a lesson from that. The close emotional attachment that once linked fans to players no longer exists, and fans have become increasingly hostile to players' demands...
...medication Broadway has needed most in recent weeks is Valium. As David Hare's new play, in which both Kidman and co-star Iain Glen appear briefly in the nude, prepared to transfer from London to New York City, trend-conscious theatergoers seemed headed for a nervous breakdown: the clamor for tickets exceeded anything in recent Broadway memory...
Ironically, no adjustments are needed outside the U.S. With restaurants in more than 114 countries, McDonald's still represents Americana. When I return to France, my niece's children, who are wild about what they call "Macdo," clamor to go there. It has a somewhat snobbish appeal for the young, who are enamored of the American life-style...