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...entertainment, The Apprentice is not quite Survivor--hype aside, Manhattan can't out-jungle the jungle--but it's much more exciting than Burnett's take on the dining business in The Restaurant. The challenges, which make up the bulk of the episodes, are cleverly designed and guarantee dramatic sparks. Above all, it was smart to borrow the provocative battle-of-the-sexes motif from Survivor: Amazon, even if the casting questions Burnett and Trump's claim that the contestants were chosen (from 215,000 applicants) mainly for brains. The women range from hottest-woman-in-your-office...
...next. (It's a safe bet that he's the only painter of note ever to rate a review in Juggs magazine. A rave, of course.) But there's another kind of boom boom that Currin also brings to mind these days. It's the steady pounding of hype. At 41, with a measure of talent and no shortage of sheer cunning, he's routinely described as the painter of the moment. The Currin retrospective has already been seen in Chicago and London, and at every stop, all the bugles of fame have been sounding...
...America’s love affair with art has rekindled lately, just in time for our generation to appreciate a flowering of stunning temporary collections. But there are ominous signs. High-profile shows may have an addictive effect on museums, as they come to rely on heavy marketing and hype to lure ever larger numbers of Americans. And commercialization has results besides elevated attendance—how many more over-promoted, “once-in-a-lifetime” art exhibits can there be before museums resort to “Michelangelo vs. Raphael: The Final Smackdown?...
...Crimson, as you know, hasn’t yet lived up to pre-season hype. Returning all but three regulars from a 22-win team, Harvard’s icemen stand 4-3-1 on the year, 3-3-1 in the ECAC. Their high point thus far was a convincing 5-2 defeat of Boston University, which helped them build a three-game win streak...
...been called the thug Elvis and Malcolm X reborn as a rapper. Since he predicted his own demise and since the movie of his life and death is called Tupac: Resurrection, we may as well surrender to hip-hop hype and say Tupac Shakur was the gangsta Jesus. True to his cult status, Shakur's myth blossomed after his death. So did his estate. It earned a lively $12 million last year. As with the deaths of so many celebs, his was a pity, an irony, a great career move...