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...Hotel to get a good seat at AutoZone Park. Outside Chicago, he would see Kane County Cougars players being swarmed by young fans. And in cities and towns from Shreveport, La., to Medicine Hat, Alta., he would see how the major leagues' little siblings have turned themselves into the hottest ticket in sports...
...days. Based on John Waters' 1988 cult film about an overweight, twist-era teenager who fights for racial integration on the dance floor, the show got ecstatic reviews during its pre-Broadway run in Seattle. Now, as its Aug. 15 opening approaches, theater insiders are touting it as the hottest show since The Producers. Advance ticket sales have topped $6 million--approaching the $13 million The Producers racked up before its opening. Celebs like Danny DeVito and Mel Brooks have shown up at previews; newspaper columnists are virtually ordering readers to get tickets before it's too late; and Bloomingdale...
Still, anyone who has experienced a frothy market like San Francisco may find the fair-value argument difficult to accept. That's because in the past few years the hottest markets have been rebounding from declines in the early 1990s. Measuring from trough to peak will always show unsustainable growth. A better snapshot comes from measuring from peak to peak. Take San Francisco again. The median home price has surged to $482,000 as of the first quarter of this year, from $254,000 in 1995. That's an 11.3% average annual return, double the historical national average...
...greatest fear is being the biggest dork at the Janet Reno Dance Party. I have never been anywhere in South Beach where I was not the least cool person in the room, and Level, where Reno is throwing a Friday-night fund raiser, is one of the hottest clubs in Miami. Being the No. 1 loser at a party for Janet Reno--the former U.S. Attorney General, current Florida gubernatorial candidate and perennial icon of dork style--could set my self-confidence back to junior high levels...
...girl who, contrary to cliche, gets ruined by a book. The tome is by a handsome writer, Lorenzo (Tristan Ulloa); his fan, Lucia (the divine Paz Vega), follows him around, comes on to him in a bar and then goes home with him for some of the hottest, nakedest sex you have seen since your last European "art" film. (For the past couple of years, European movies have been raising--or lowering--the bar in this matter, without much comment by the American critics or public...