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...with him, a layer of show-biz complexity and tension. But remaining is Sloane's Marcy/Tori, a brilliant comic creation down to her slightest tic, squeak and emotion-punctuating chest thrust. Marcy is really Pointe's most likable character, a good-hearted dim bulb made a nervous wreck by gossip and the stress of looking impossibly good. (A bulimia scene, also cut, was a cruel but apt picture of the flip side of TV's hot-body worship.) Star's using his past for laughs, yes, but not without heart...
...business of campaigning. Campaigning not only wastes politicians' time, but, because of its attack ads, its mud-slinging and its inflated promises, campaigning destroys voter trust. An extended campaign season leaves political reporters with little to write about except the occasional missteps of candidates on the trail and juicy gossip, none of which is really relevant to the issues of governance. The skeleton generally rises out of the closet in the beginning of a campaign--if you think back far enough the public was well aware of Clinton's philandering back before the New Hampshire primary in 1992. The current...
...These stories - Spalding Gray, who plays Russell, calls it "creative gossip" - make the script more alive and present for the actors. "When you have Gore around all of a sudden you're one degree of separation from all of this American history that he's writing about in this play," says Ethan McSweeney, the 29-year-old director making his Broadway debut with "The Best Man." (McSweeney, incidentally, is a Washingtonian whose family is friendly with that other Gore, the one running for president...
...much like off-line gossip, these postings can have an impact. Greedyassociates.com gets up to 80,000 hits a day, and as its name suggests, much of the focus is on compensation. The site charts salaries at large law firms around the country, information that was once hard to come by, putting pressure on the laggards to pay top dollar. "I'm certain we've helped push up salaries," says one of the underground site's organizers. "We've helped create a more perfect market...
...along with the power come potential pitfalls. Lawyers are predicting a glut of "cybersmear" libel lawsuits by targets of malicious online gossip. "Companies are not particularly sensitive about someone standing next to a water cooler and griping about someone else," says Blake Bell, a New York lawyer and editor of a website called CyberSecuritiesLaw. "But these messages go out to so many people that they're very concerned." Although the sites give their posters--who generally use pseudonyms--a feeling of anonymity, they're usually not anonymous at all. Faced with a subpoena, most sites will readily divulge a poster...