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...Male-oriented business entertainment is hardly unusual, even if it isn?t always expensed. Morgan Stanley fired four employees last year after learning that they - on their own dime -had taken a client to Skin, a Phoenix strip club. Rick?s Cabaret, a publicly traded operator of upscale topless bars, estimates that 40% of its $24 million in revenue last year came from businessmen and their clients. ?This is what the clients want,? says CEO Eric Langan. ?A lot of deals get closed in strip clubs...
...Street curmudgeons will tell you the 11,000 mark doesn't matter, that it's just a number. But after six years without making a dime, as the Dow's long doldrums suggest has been the average investor's experience, hitting a big number like 11,000-and holding it-may be more important than many believe. The stock market is as much an emotional barometer as it is a gauge of the economy. Indeed, if stocks were purely rational, the Dow would have set a new record by now. GDP growth is on track, inflation is tame, corporate earnings...
...September) and both are elbowing each other to sign high-profile talent. Besides Stern, Sirius is trumpeting a Martha Stewart channel while XM recently landed Bob Dylan for a weekly show and owns satellite radio rights to Major League Baseball. Neither company has earned a dime in profits- both forecast that they?ll break even within a year or two. In fact, what really separates them is Stern, whose $500 million deal with Sirius is either a stroke of programming genius or a colossal waste of money-the biggest gamble on an entertainer in any field, be it film, television...
...charm because of the flat direction from Broadway choreographer/debut director Susan Stroman and over-the-top performances from its leads.The magic of the musical doesn’t fully translate; the film looks and feels unnecessary, as if it was made for the sole purpose of getting another dime out of a third adaptation.Tony-winners Lane and Broderick return to their celebrated roles as Max Bialystock, the devious Broadway producer, and Leo Bloom, his timid and mentally-unstable accountant, who devise a plan to embezzle a fortune. They figure that by raising more money than needed to produce a show...
...blowing moves of University of Southern California (U.S.C.) running back Reggie Bush, one of the most thrilling players in history, has joined homecoming weekend as a favorite autumn pastime. Which highlight is No. 1? When he juked an Oregon defender while wearing one shoe? When he stopped on a dime, watched a Fresno State defender fly by and darted across the field for a 50-yd. touchdown? Perhaps his quantum leap over a UCLA cornerback, legs split high in the air à la Michael Jordan, finished with a flip into the end zone like a Hollywood stuntman? Bush, downplaying...