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...also flashed the TV audience, who then got to watch them lie to the other stone-faced liars at the table. "We made this into a spectator sport," says Lipscomb. "Now when you watch a World Poker Tour show, you feel like you're in the seat making a million-dollar decision on every hand...
...everyone sees through the branding and gimmicks," says Janine Lopiano, a co-founder of the Manhattan cultural-intelligence and market-research firm Sputnik. "Believe it or not, to see a celebrity [attached to a product] makes it real. In the '90s it was celebrity as hero--the million-dollar salaries. Now they're a dose of reality at a time when everything is over the top, animated and not real...
...Sequoia, Sierra, Stanislaus and Mendocino national forests. They also supplied workers for pot farms on federal land in Arkansas, Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington. According to investigators, the Maganas and other groups have used profits from methamphetamine operations to expand into marijuana. They own gas stations, haciendas and million-dollar resorts in Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, Michoacan and other parts of Mexico. "They have tremendous networks involving legal businesses, money laundering and distribution," says Jerry Moore, the Forest Service's regional law-enforcement chief. "We arrest people, but new players move...
...list of the world's worst autograph signers. Maguire has exactly one vice, illegal Cuban Cohiba Robusto cigars. On this morning, he smokes two before noon. In a three-hour interview, he makes exactly one joke. Asked if he is worried about the cigars messing up his million-dollar voice, he pretends to be offended. "A million?" he says, as if that's not enough. (Fact is, he's reportedly getting $12 million for Seabiscuit and $17 million for Spider...
...University pledged to fund a million-dollar study of the region’s transportation systems during negotiations with local officials this spring over Harvard’s controversial purchase of 91 acres of undeveloped Boston land, according to Harvard’s recently-hired transportation consultant Frederick P. Salvucci...