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...They have broken ground for a casino-hotel-entertainment complex with a new partner, Hard Rock Cafe International. The casino-resort, which will also have convention facilities, a beach club and a spa, will add to the Seminoles' lucrative gaming business. Last year the tribe's two casinos, in Hollywood and Tampa, made a combined profit of $216 million on revenue of $254 million--a return of 85%. By comparison, General Electric, often described by the media as America's best-managed company, reported net income of $13.7 billion for 2001, an 11% return on revenue...
What do evangelical Christians, Hollywood liberals and anyone stuck in traffic behind a Range Rover have in common? A desire to rethink the American love affair with the sport-utility vehicle (SUV), which accounts for 27% of new-auto sales. A national television ad campaign will be launched in January linking gas guzzlers to the war on terror. One commercial opens with an image of an SUV driver pumping gas, followed by stock footage of a terrorist training camp. The closing text reads, "What is your SUV doing to the world?" The two 30-second spots are the project...
...historian whose 1970 chronicle Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee swept away the conventional belief in the "Indian savage" and the "noble white settler"; in Little Rock, Ark. The white librarian upended the movie mythology of the Old West and documented the Indian Wars of 1860-90 as less Hollywood than holocaust. The 1890 slaughter of 300 Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, S.D., turned the grounds into a shrine and the site of a 71-day protest in 1973 that ended in the deaths of two more Indians...
Like many other actors who have become Hollywood icons, Newman thinks he would have led a worthier life if he had done more theater. So he chose to make his return to the stage (in a production first seen at the Westport Country Playhouse, where his wife Joanne Woodward is artistic director) in Our Town, Thornton Wilder's oft produced slice of Americana, which is given some 350 stagings around the country each year. As the Stage Manager--the fourth-wall-bursting narrator who introduces us to the town of Grover's Corners and its bashful young lovers, George Gibbs...
...Olympics coverage with human drama and journalistic rigor, and made Howard Cosell and Monday Night Football national obsessions. Traditionalists were alarmed when the sports guy was named president of ABC News in 1977. But he made the No. 3 news network a competitive force for the first time, paying Hollywood salaries to newscasters like Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, expanding news into prime time with shows like 20/20 and badgering the network to air a late-night newscast during the Iran hostage crisis, which turned into Nightline, one of TV's most revered news shows...