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...gauge WWN's influence across the media, consider that it's the only tabloid newspaper to have inspired two terrific musicals. The first was David Byrne's 1986 movie True Stories, which shows two guys in a laughing fit over a WWN headline ("Starving Peasants Sell Their Blood to Vampires for Blood Money") and features a character called the Lying Woman, whose claims of being involved in every imaginable sexual, political and extraterrestrial scandal echo many a WWN story...
...grip on the medium-range market. Boeing is trying to make the 787 easier to buy too. It offers airlines the choice of two engines, made by either GE or Rolls-Royce. Airbus offers only a customized Rolls-Royce Trent engine because the engines GE offered to A350 customers fit only two of the three versions. GE won't make an engine for the A350-1000 to compete with the one it has developed...
...with when you were born. If you are over 35 or 40, you were probably raised to guard your privacy and hide your slipups. But reality TV, Web 2.0 and social networking have accustomed people to public performance. Karaoke shows, which reward correct lyrics, not proper pitch, fit the new American belief that lack of talent is no reason not to command an audience. The Singing Bee's slogan--"You don't have to sing it well, you just have to sing it right!"--would make a great national motto...
...That timing fit with Josh Bolten's deadline for resignations: Bush's chief of staff has asked anyone in the Administration who is planning to leave before the end of Bush's presidency to let him know before Labor Day this year. And the departure also comes conveniently at the tail end of the August doldrums, with Washington still on summer recess and much of the country on vacation. Better to make the move now, the White House figured, than wait for Congress to return and perhaps renew its campaign to oust Gonzales. "You're not going to make...
...Weinstein team sees fit, the $285 million fund will be distributed among development, production, and acquisition of films made in Asia, by Asian filmmakers, or about Asian subjects. They estimate that they'll produce 21 theatrical releases and another 10 straight-to-DVD films over six years. If local distributors pick up the films, the Weinstein Company will reap some of those profits, which they'll use to pay back investors. TWC will have first pick of what Asian pictures they'll distribute back in the U.S., and they'll buy those films with the fund...