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...come to this: you had a Baby Ruth for breakfast, you're operating on three hours' sleep, and you're sitting in a rented Hertz in the parking lot of a CVS drugstore waiting for your cell phone to ring. You're waiting for D'Angelo. You're not alone. Ever since the hip-hop/soul singer released his promising first album, Brown Sugar (1995), with its old-school crooning and new-school beats, fans, critics and impressed fellow musicians have been eagerly anticipating his follow-up. Even hip-hop folkie Beck--a guy who could give...
Drawing upon his experience as a professional pitchman (Hertz) and murder defendant (Trial of the Century), O.J. SIMPSON has taped a series of ads for Justice Media, a lawyer-referral service. Simpson says the offer to appear in the television commercials interested him because the ads are aimed at minorities, who often don't have enough money or connections to get first-class attorneys. "The main thing I have learned is you can't walk into a courtroom without competent legal representation," Simpson told the Associated Press. The ads have yet to appear, but Justice Media plans to sell them...
...Former Hertz spokesman O.J. SIMPSON has demonstrated a remarkable ineptitude at shaping his public image. First there was that unpleasant murder trial, followed by a string of bizarre interviews and an endless series of golf outings when he was supposed to be searching for ex-wife Nicole's killer. Now he has been spotted, and photographed, by the Globe with a woman who bears an eerie resemblance to Nicole, far right. Christie Prody, near right, a 23-year-old former waitress, is said to be spending time with Simpson and his kids. Hang on to your sunglasses, Chris...
...broke. His friends and lawyers support this claim. They say his net worth, estimated at $11 million only four years ago, has been annihilated by legal costs, the upkeep of his large estate and the loss of the $1 million a year he once received from his contracts with Hertz...
...most businesses being first to market grants a lead not easily forfeited. McDonald's, Coke and Hertz debuted years before Burger King, Pepsi and Avis, and have held on. In the high-tech world, however, the opposite appears to obtain: early products such as Betamax and Macintosh were steamrollered by latecomers that waited for markets to mature and newer technologies to develop...