Word: mavens
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Anyone tuned into the nightly prime-time TV show Blob might easily conclude that despite Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's virtual stranglehold on television broadcasting, the media in Italy have a free run. Blob , the creation of eccentric film buff turned TV maven Enrico Ghezzi, offers one of Italy's best shows by pasting together clips from some of its worst. Five excruciating seconds of a half-naked, singing showgirl segues into 30 seconds of politicians shouting each other down, which cuts to the day's sappiest moment from a low-budget soap. Into this kaleidoscope of bad taste Ghezzi...
...Harvard, O’Keefe was a veritable Renaissance man: a ’Poonster, Krokodiloe and theater maven...
LINDA BARTLETT Marriott's Merger Maven She led Marriott International's streamlining effort and produced impressive results. By using the Web to expedite tasks like expense reporting and by securing better prices from vendors, she helped Marriott save some $40 million a year. The company just promoted Bartlett, 44, to a bigger job, where her eye for bargains should come in handy: head of mergers and acquisitions...
...Waters based his script on memories of "The Buddy Deane Show," a Baltimore staple that had entranced the young style maven. "I loved it," Waters recently told Blake Green of Newsday. "They [the dancers] were my imaginary friends. I used to watch the show and draw exaggerated hairdos and make up fictitious biographies for all of them. I even danced on the show - twice, both times the dirty boogie. Then I smoked pot and that was all over. My friends radically changed. No more Buddy Deane...
...house was packed, 12,000 strong, for the fourth annual Bollywood Awards. At the food kiosks in the lobby, patrons lined up for jalebi, aloo vada and samosa chole. Onstage, Indian TV chat maven Ruby Bhatia provided hyperbolic introductions ("His immense talent is about to unfold on this very stage!") to a dozen or so Indian musical acts that whipped the crowd into a cheerful frenzy. And subcontinental film celebrities came by to accept awards in such categories as Best Villain, Best Comic and Most Sensational Female...