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...freedom to vote in areas outside your expertise," says Ken Barnes of the trade publication Radio & Records. The system seems to give the advantage to more widely publicized, commercially accepted acts. "If you don't sell, you don't have a chance at winning," says rock critic Dave Marsh. "But if you do sell, it doesn't guarantee winning...
...time. Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Little Richard, Sonny Rollins, the Talking Heads, the Supremes and the Who never got a single piece of Grammy gold. Some of Grammy's greatest hitters are heavy-duty worthies (Aretha Franklin has copped 15, Stevie Wonder 17), but it's also true, as Marsh points out, that "no one thinks that the Grammys honor artistry. People like Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen and Phil Spector have all been disrespected by the Grammys, and so people don't take the awards seriously...
...least publicly -- and shrug off the challenge from outlet malls. "The competition in retail is always fierce, but our customer is not attracted to an outlet mall," says Carol Sanger, vice president of the Federated and Allied Stores chain, which includes Bloomingdale's, Burdine's, A&S and Jordan Marsh. She may be wrong about that. "I'd much rather go to a fancy mall and shop a sale," admits Sheryl Rolnick, 39, of Coral Springs, but one day recently she drove out to Sawgrass to do a little bargain hunting. "The discount malls are having an effect," she says...
Disney too is probably off limits. Says Paul Marsh, who follows media firms for the Los Angeles investment firm Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards: "The Mickey Mouse trademark is a bit like the Statue of Liberty. I don't think it's for sale." Paramount, valued at about $5 billion, seems more interested in buying than in being bought...
...Marsh said she thinks the government should make cheaper housing options available to the homeless...