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...walked in, total silence fell over the restaurant. I still remember what Jackie ordered: a Muenster cheeseburger and a glass of skim milk. That's way before your time, though. I remember a couple of years ago, Skip Gates called me and asked me to change his menu item from a chicken sandwich to a hamburger. I heard a lot of noise in the background, so I asked him, 'Skip, where are you calling me from?' He was calling me from the hospital—he had just gotten hip replacement surgery...
...warehouse. A week or two later, the finished product is popped out and the material rendered biologically inert. The company's first product, a green alternative to Styrofoam, is taking on the packaging industry. Called Ecocradle, it is set to be shipped around a yet-to-be-disclosed consumer item this spring...
Admittedly, the op-ed succeeded at one thing: application of stereotypes. The penultimate paragraph invites readers to, “[w]atch how quickly [women] can figure out that marked-down price of any clothing item during a sale.” Comments on this jewel are hardly necessary...
...underground DVD market in Tehran; almost nowhere in the world is the sixth and final season of Lost anticipated more than in Iran. Initially discovered in October 2008 by a few Iranians with access to high-speed Internet, the show has become Tehran's "gotta have it" DVD item. (Certainly, nothing compares to it on Iranian state television, with its cooking shows and documentaries.) Today it is next to impossible to find a young person in the capital - be it in the affluent north of the city or the working-class south - who has not seen or at least heard...
...which earned $2,250,000 on 239 screens - fewer than a tenth of the venues for Ford's Edsel. Crazy Heart, with Jeff Bridges as an aging country singer reappraising his misspent life, was originally intended go to directly to TV, yet it's now a warm-to-hot item, thanks to Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild trophies for its star. Bridges, 60, is one of Hollywood's most liked and admired leading men. Most durable too: he received his first Academy Award nomination back in 1972 (for Supporting Actor in The Last Picture Show). Crazy Heart has made...