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An all-star in his first season with Pittsburgh’s top minor league franchise, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, Welch was tapped to replace suspended NHL defenseman Eric Cairns for three games in late March. And wouldn’t you know, Welch’s own-goal...
"I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series." SHARON STONE, actress, at the premiere of Basic Instinct 2, on the possibility of expanding the nudity-filled movie franchise
Despite those obstacles and a decade after his initial fame (so much for speed to market), Yeganeh is taking his soup store national. He and a group of partners are expanding the Fifth Avenue tourist magnet (a few blocks from the modest original location) into a 1,000-store franchise...
That doesn't mean he is about to start following convention. He continues to shun attention, thus getting it. "Al has gone into his temporary hiding mode," says his spokesman. Instead of pep talks, his franchisees get the tough love usually reserved for customers. Yeganeh changes the menu at will, and he will pull a popular soup out of rotation if he thinks it could be better. "We've already had three different kinds of bread," says franchise owner Lisa Ruddy, whose Princeton shop opened in October. "Al is obviously temperamental, but he's an artist," says John Bello...
A stage musical of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy saga? Good Lord, why? Well, for starters, because the original three-volume story was filled with music--more than 50 songs that added levity and lyricism to the military drumbeat of its narrative. And also because: Why not? LOTR is certainly an...