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...Christmas season fast approaches, dot.coms flush with cash from their stock-market offerings, are pumping money into old media and stretching the creative limits of Madison Avenue. "If you don't gain market share now, you're never going to get it," says analyst Henry Blodgett of Merrill Lynch. By the end of this year, e-commerce companies will shell out $2.5 billion on traditional advertising, according to PaineWebber. That may be just a fraction of the $80 billion U.S. ad market, but it's four times what Net firms spent in 1998. For the moment, dot.coms are actually spending...
...roped in a marquee full of guest stars to lend a hip, young edge: Dave Matthews, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Everlast and Rob Thomas of the rock band Matchbox 20. Radio is lapping up the star-packed bill, powering the album's rise. And, not least, the songs are flush with energy and redemptive beauty...
...stuff for Apple." Today, he says over lunch, he has already answered 25 e-mails and 10 phone calls relating to Pixar, and by nightfall he will cover at least 100 Apple e-mails--many from fevered Mac-heads around the world. "If somebody doesn't flush a toilet around here," he says in mock complaint, "I get e-mail from Kansas about...
...Which is why the recent flush of movies geared toward men that seem to have fewer guns and more thought has been terrifically surprising. Fight Club, in particular, has gripped preview audiences with its maze of guy angst. (Since when have guys had angst? Girls patented angst.) The story of a charismatic anarchist (Brad Pitt) who starts up a group of men who beat the crap out of each other for fun, drawing in yuppie men chucking their grey flannel suits for a life of chaos. Other yuppie violence movies have stirred the male psyche recently - American Psycho and American...
...have to love second-time lovers Lily Manning and Rick Sammler, cursed with time deficits, blessed with complementary beauty--she is flush with earthy warmth, he, all icy-eyed angles. Through their fugitive courtship--making out in back seats and living rooms in rare moments without the kids--you thrill with them. When Lily moans, "I've got two kids. How can I take my clothes off?," you want to buy her a drink. Once and Again has the makings of a feel-good hit. What it lacks is the complexity and daring of Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz...