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...Band, the artifice--the sound-enhancing wizardry, the dance drills, the media coaching--is the reason for watching. Likewise on the WB's girl-group incubator Popstars and VH1's new Bands on the Run, in which real unsigned bands compete to make the most money on an eight-week tour, the entertainment business becomes entertainment. It's a breed of programming suited to an age when ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY readers and E! watchers are increasingly attuned to the mercantile biz end of show biz. (Is action director Michael Bay over budget? Is Disney chief Michael Eisner the most powerful...
...Crime Task Force. In raids in July that year in Las Vegas and Schenectady, authorities arrested 15 bookmakers, confiscated $436,000 in cash and uncovered evidence of a multimillion-dollar betting ring. The Schenectady bookies ran a full-scale operation complete with computers and multiple phone lines. In one eight-week period, police wiretaps turned up 5,800 calls to their "wire room" near downtown Schenectady from gamblers placing bets on college and professional basketball games...
...maybe actors. Maybe they'd go directly for an actor. Why not? It's happened before." Vidal says the contemporary corruption of politics by Big Money could be halted "by one act of Congress, which is to require the networks and cable television to provide free time for an eight-week period, let's say, for the presidential election, and not allow anybody to buy any time. But Congress will never pass such a law, because no burglar after he gets to the second story ever kicks the ladder away...
...maybe actors. Maybe they'd go directly for an actor. Why not? It's happened before." Vidal says the contemporary corruption of politics by Big Money could be halted "by one act of Congress, which is to require the networks and cable television to provide free time for an eight-week period, let's say, for the presidential election, and not allow anybody to buy any time. But Congress will never pass such a law, because no burglar after he gets to the second story ever kicks the ladder away...
...Each spring, students at Woodrow Wilson Elementary in Denton, Texas, trade their normal curriculum for an eight-week crash course known as "TAAS Camp." There, students who ace a day of drills spend the late afternoon playing computer and board games. The stragglers get one-on-one tutoring. The pressure peaks at test time. Says Sarah Telaneus, 11: "All of a sudden your heart starts pounding and you're thinking, ?I might go blank.'" Not to worry: she and her classmates turned in scores high enough to put their teachers in line for bonuses...