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...gift bag has trickled down to every local charity function, and Distinctive Assets is constantly asked to do bar mitzvahs, weddings and dinner parties, which they sometimes will as a favor to a big client or celebrity. Madison & Mulholland, a gift-bag company in New York City, even produces bags several times a year for United Airlines' first-class passengers and the Hampton Jitney, which is a commuter bus between Manhattan and Long Island, N.Y. ?People who go out to the Hamptons are trendsetters,? says Jane Ubell-Meyer, who founded Madison & Mulholland four years ago. We will...
...prestigious public-service fellowship awarded to college juniors—the news of the Rhodes still came as surprise to his family, he said. “[My family] didn’t even believe me at first. I called my mom as she was walking down Madison Avenue and she started screaming,” said Kelly. His mother, Marie Kelly, said she is proud of her son’s accomplishments. “Will is truly a wonderful young person. He is very caring,” she said. “And he really devoted himself...
...could include ads, as CBS's do. Video clips at websites like MTV's and CNN's, he notes, include spots that sell for a higher rate per viewer than TV equivalents. And selling shows could diversify the revenue streams of a business that's almost wholly dependent on Madison Avenue--which, with more viewers using digital video recorders like TiVo to skip commercials, is already threatening to pull money from TV and put it into other media...
...laugh it off. “I cry at a good McDonald’s commercial,” he said. The serious tone was also reflected when Franken spoke about the impact of religion on American culture. He stressed that the founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were deists who saw morality all around them without the emphasis on Christianity. “Then again, Jefferson had sex with a slave,” he deadpanned. Aside from his serious reading, there were still plenty of jabs at right-wing pundits like O’Reilly...
Sometime this month in Chicago, Clint Eastwood will complete principal photography on his latest movie, Flags of Our Fathers. It's the 26th feature film he has directed since he made Play Misty for Me in 1971. And just as he has done before (The Bridges of Madison County, Mystic River), he is basing it on a best-selling book. But this movie is different from all the others that he or anyone else has directed, for Flags is only half the story he wants to tell...