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...without the income generated by big name acts, how will record labels support and promote lesser-known artists? "If we keep moving down this particular route, companies will only release records that are sure home runs," says Martin Talbot, editor of industry paper Music Week. "That means either stuff by established artists or unknown artists doing cover versions. There is the danger that it will no longer be worth it for companies to invest in new, up-and-coming artists. And if record companies don't invest in them, who will...
...rough job, but somebody's gotta do it. The Florida-born chemical engineer cruises the Caribbean on his 44-ft. cutter in search of the world's best rums. He's not looking for the pale stuff you guzzle with Coca-Cola; he's out for the darker, lesser-known aged rums you sip from a snifter. That's right--rum in a snifter. Hamilton's website fans know him as the Minister of Rum, and he's issued a new decree: rum after dinner instead of the traditional brandy or single-malt scotch. "We all remember getting sick...
Robert Kennedy's crusade against the lesser-known Marcello, whose Mob territory embraced Texas, was almost as intense. Born in Tunisia of Sicilian parents who moved to the U.S. in 1910, Marcello later used a phony Guatemalan birth registration to avoid deportation to Italy. Fully aware that Marcello was not a Guatemalan, Kennedy in 1961 nevertheless had Immigration agents hustle him aboard a 78-seat jet as its lone passenger and deposit him in Guatemala City. Marcello and his American lawyer were later flown to El Salvador, where soldiers dumped the two expensively dressed men in the mountains. Marcello claimed...
...that allows candidates time to actually meet with members of the voting public, voters make less informed decisions, forced to rely on media soundbites instead of actual engagement with nominees. A drawn-out primary schedule also tempers disparities between campaigns’ war chests. With the old system, a lesser-known candidate had time to build momentum in the first primaries and translate that momentum into donations that would allow them to be competitive in larger states. Candidates were also forced to spend time in smaller, bellwether states convincing voters of their worthiness. For example, despite setbacks in early primaries...
...they know there’s a very strong relationship between ‘Sin City’ and Frank [Miller] and ‘300’ and Frank and sort of his style and that world.”INTO THE SPOTLIGHTSnyder explains his decision to cast lesser-known actors in leading roles as part of a desire to have audiences see the film as an artistic creation rather than a conglomeration of big names.“We felt like, look, Gerry is amazing and Rodrigo is awesome, but if you put them in sort...