Word: modeling
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...front-page story in the Boston Globe. Clapprood is a raspy-voiced bleached blond who jumped from a stint in the state legislature to a gig as one of New England's most famous--and raunchiest--radio personalities. (On the air she once asked Fabio, the romance-novel cover model, if he has "big private parts.") The mayor of Somerville, Michael Capuano, showed strength in a recent poll, but the best hope for an upset may be a wonkish venture capitalist named Chris Gabrieli, who's spending his own millions to run a campaign focused on, of all things, policy...
...Tremouille said he hoped the petition "could become a model for the city...
...from that moment on, the audience is on her side. "Once you fall in love with Mo'Nique," she explains later, "I can say anything." That includes energetic rants against Victoria's Secret's refusal to carry size 22. Though her material isn't brilliant, the former full-size model has a persona that's perfect for TV. And, conveniently enough, she's already closed up her comedy club in Baltimore, Md., to move...
Barrymore made her first movie splash as the wide-eyed little girl who befriended E.T. 16 years ago, which qualifies her as a sort of cool elder sister for the new group of Hollywood teens. With a stream of increasingly grownup movie parts, she's not a bad role model. After a 1996 cameo in Scream and a perky co-starring role in The Wedding Singer, she stars in Ever After, a sweet feminist remake of Cinderella that opens this weekend, and plays a pregnant fast-food clerk in the quirky black comedy Home Fries, coming later this year...
Antioco's strategy is deceptively simple: stock more of the new releases that customers want. Before Antioco, the average Blockbuster customer had to visit a store five consecutive weekends in order to get the movie he wanted. To change that, Blockbuster had to overhaul its business model. In the past the company bought tapes from the studios for about $65 apiece. Because each store has 10,000 tapes, the inventory got expensive, thus limiting the company's willingness to invest in too many copies of one film. Now Blockbuster has revenue-sharing deals with all but a couple of major...