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...Labels can still be influential and profitable by focusing on younger acts that need their muscle to get radio play and placement in record stores - but only if the music itself remains a saleable commodity. "That's the interesting part of all this," says a producer who works primarily with American rap artists. "Radiohead is the best band in the world; if you can pay whatever you want for music by the best band in the world, why would you pay $13 dollars or $.99 cents for music by somebody less talented? Once you open that door and start giving...
...heels. When she realized that all her favorite dresses were vintage Halston, she phoned her friend the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, and they became investors in the Halston company, along with private-equity firm Hilco Consumer Capital, the majority shareholder. Although Mellon has promoted TV and movie product placement for Jimmy Choo with considerable enthusiasm, there's a chance to go further with Halston: she hopes Weinstein will supply the biopic. "A movie turns a brand into a household name. Fashion magazines reach a million, but this is how you reach 100 million," Mellon says...
...says, she was in Cannes dressing "a lot of stars. At the after party at the Hotel du Cap in Cannes, I looked around the room, and there were five tables?George Clooney's table, Scorsese's table. And I thought, These are real friendships, not just product placement...
...Little Rock Central. During the event, HBO screened a documentary examining the lives of today’s Little Rock Central students, asking the question how far the nation has progressed since the 1957. Brown-Trickey said little progress at the school had been made, even though the Advanced Placement program (AP) now ranks the school among the top in the country, according to the film. Brown-Trickey smiled last night, but her expression in the film betrayed sadness and disbelief at social self-segregation among students. The film also shows a disparity between the number of white and black...
...help increase opportunities for students from all socioeconomic backgrounds, Miami- Dade County public schools last year began testing all 23,000 first-graders using a culture-neutral, language-free assessment that requires no reading, writing or speaking. The result? The number of first-graders screened for gifted placement shot up from some 100 the previous year to nearly 3,000. Says deputy superintendent Antoinette Dunbar of the decision to start testing every first-grader for giftedness: "Sometimes we overlook the very obvious...