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...beens--that he has written a song about the matter, which he plans to put on a rerelease of his 2002 album, Former Child Actor. Then again, The Surreal Life is probably the only reason you know Feldman had a 2002 album. As for Manthey, she wants to parlay Surreal Life into an acting role in old-fashioned fiction television. "It's pilot-casting season," she says, "and there's been renewed interest in me because of the show." Reality may have changed the rules of celebrity, but the big dream is still the same: to become a true star...
...then, chortals are now focusing on more prosaic matters, such as lowering costs and boosting revenues. And two of them have a profitable quarter under their belts?a rare distinction for any Internet company. The secret? Unlike Yahoo, Terra Lycos or most international competitors, chortals have found ways to parlay their user bases into sales by taking a new approach to selling ads, collecting fees for wireless services and harnessing the craze for online games. "Chinese portals originally followed Yahoo. Now they have become a leader," gushes Chang Qiu, managing director of Forun Technologies, a research company that focuses...
...stay in the spotlight and, if he helps turn the company around, be a hero again. Yet Giuliani may learn that messing with the debt of bankrupt companies is not necessarily a career-enhancing move. The distressed-debt market is a playground for vulture investors, a place to parlay others' misfortunes into personal wealth. How would that resonate with voters? --By Daniel Kadlec
...Republican W. Mitt Romney tries to parlay his pivotal role in the fiscal bailout of the Olympics into the Bay State’s highest political office, he faces Democrat Shannon P. O’Brien in a race that has grown increasingly bitter and polemic in its closing days...
...with a pretty big agenda. “I didn’t want to leave [Atlanta] till I had found out really if I could have made it there,” he said, “I basically gave up Berklee…and I had to parlay every one of those moves [after that point] into at least the hope of getting to some goal.” A few years later, Mayer has made it big, proving that a shot in the dark is still a worth a shot...