Word: marts
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...their side. As Davis suggests, avid music fans expect their stars to evolve. But the Idol audience, which has an unprecedented ownership stake in Aiken's career, is not made up of avid music fans. A disproportionate number of copies of This Is the Night were sold at Wal-Mart and Target stores, and a large number of those discs were picked up in the check-out lane, where Sanders positioned Idol merchandise to catch the eye of people who wouldn't think of stopping in the music section. "Our consumer is the middle 80% of the population," says Gerry...
...fair, Mary-Kate and Ashley aren’t the only child stars who have attempted to forge teenage careers. Raven Simone, the youngest Cosby, dropped a record of her own a few years back. But as That’s So Raven languishes in a K-Mart bargain bin somewhere in Omaha, we must accept the sad truth: absent the blonde, former child stars haven’t a prayer of retaining their fame. Sorry, Pete and Pete, the masses have spoken: 10 million girls of America want Olsen movies—and clothes and makeup and books...
...have a confession: her outfits make me want to do a cartwheel. If I had to die and be reincarnated, I probably would come back either as Jesus or as one of Paris Hilton’s handbags. So let’s forget about brunette Alice Walton, Wal-Mart heiress and divorcee, who probably spends her Friday nights at home eating Tostitos and watching Meg Ryan movies. It’s nothing but Dior and red carpets galore for the elder of the fabulous sisters Hilton...
...strongest bond of all—money, tied to our American Brand Names—has finally United the States in something more powerful than just war and football. All of America is held in common now—a McDonald’s on every corner, a Wal-Mart in every county, an American consumer life that we can share if nothing else binds us together...
...life harder than Pilates. Given $50 to buy groceries, they go over budget and plead for a break from the cashier, who tells them, "This isn't a soup kitchen." Asks Richie: "What does that mean, 'soup kitchen'?" Later, Hilton is stumped to hear of a thing called Wal-Mart. ("Is it, like, they sell wall stuff...