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...producer had to hold a lottery to decide which of his investors got the privilege of putting money into the show. "I told them we're all fools," Brooks recounts. "We should have a secret meeting in the cellar of the St. James Theatre, raise $25 million, put on a million-dollar failure and split it up. I don't know why, at the last minute they all backed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Brush Up Your Goose Step | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

Harvard Law School's (HLS) honeymoon with the CBS hit show "Survivor II" ended last Thursday night as second-year student Nick Brown lost his bid to win the million-dollar endurance contest...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Students Ends Stint on 'Survivor' | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

Which helps explain why corporations from IBM to General Motors are falling over themselves to do deals with the Web auction giant. Disney auctioned off the "D" from the original Disneyland sign. Technology titan Sun Microsystems sold server hardware on the site with million-dollar starting prices. Yet despite such big-league partnerships, it's still the little guy that counts. Unlike your local mall, eBay would not survive for a second without mom and pop operations. Its entire success is predicated on extreme diversity. And you can forget about the pernicious influence of Madison Avenue. In this hypermodern arena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bidding for Greatness | 4/4/2001 | See Source »

...million-dollar questions were number 36 ("What would be the craziest, wildest thing you would do for a million dollars?") and number 37 ("What would you NOT do for a million dollars?") The ideal answers being "waste three hours standing on line on a nice Saturday morning" and "worry about my self-respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Survivor 3': The Hollywood Audition | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...Well, more of a see-you-later. Alicia, along with whoever gets booted after her, will be hovering over the game from here on out like a ripped Jacob Marley as part of the jury that will pick the million-dollar winner, but no one made an enemy of her this Wednesday. Ogakor had the majority, and Alicia had the muscles. Just business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strong One, She Must Die | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

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