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...whole week of reports from the upfronts, save yourself some time and simply read these first two paragraphs. NBC Monday announced its upcoming season schedule for advertisers at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. Two of the most prominent announcements were the return of "The Apprentice" and the debut of "The Contender," a boxing reality show also from "Apprentice" and "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett. NBC has been trying and failing for several years to find new hit sitcoms and dramas, but it's had the most success instead with reality shows. It seems that TV viewers are finding new scripted...
...effect, the Balmain-raised Byrne has been in training since the age of 8, when she joined the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney. There she was talent-spotted by the producers of Dallas Doll, her feature film debut opposite American comedienne Sandra Bernhard in 1994. Five years later, with blond streaks and a bikini, her career was launched as Heath Ledger's love interest in Gregor Jordan's King's Cross crime caper Two Hands. Another five years on, she's the first to admit that Troy "is not much to do with the women...
...masochist. Here we're talking about Byrne's passion for performing live on stage, which she did earlier this year in a festival of short plays at a grungy inner-Sydney theater. For the actress, Moscow remains a few years off - in a much hoped for stage debut on Broadway or the West End. "Opening night is terrifying. So scary. It's like a car crash," she says. For this goddess of 2004, it's crash and Byrne time...
...critical scrutiny. (So we'll get that part out of the way: it's pretty awful.) But its real function is to expand the financial empire built by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. At 17, the twins have 34 years of show-biz experience between them, from their debut on the sitcom Full House at the age of 9 months. Since then they have starred in and helped supervise dozens of direct-to-video films and fronted the mary-kateandashley brand of fashions, cosmetics and cell phones. Their earnings last year topped $1 billion. When they turn 18 next month...
Fair trade bananas will make their Harvard debut seven months after first appearing on the shelves of select U.S. food stores, thanks to the efforts of the Harvard Fair Trade Initiative (HFTI), a student group which member Mary M. Jirmanus ’05 described as committed to promoting conscious consumerism...