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...he’s waiting tables cause there’s rent...
...rich get richer and the poor get poorer—a truism since the dawn of civilization—but nowhere more evident than in the Massachusetts housing market since the state abolished rent control in 1994. A short history lesson: for years the powerful real estate industry had wanted to end rent control, but real estate tycoons and wealthy companies looking to make even bigger profits were not exactly garnering sympathy. Enter a powerful public relations campaign, in which every elderly widow or recent immigrant dependent on renting part of their home to make ends meet was marched before...
...should help BBC America become profitable within the next 18 months. The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) launched BBCA five years ago to liven up the Beeb's image in the U.S., export more British culture and, since it runs ads, turn a profit. BBCA is the Beeb's low-rent cousin...
...Black’s brand of mischief, and with a sturdy cast and script behind him, he manages to whip up some of the biggest laughs of the year. Black plays Dewey Finn, a guitarist thrown out of his band, rendering him even less capable of paying the rent that he owes his substitute teacher roommate. Posing as his roommate, he assumes the responsibility of educating a classroom of unusually well-behaved fifth graders, who he discovers to be, rather conveniently, excellent musicians. School of Rock echoes with comic and emotional resonance without getting mired in sentimentality, allowing Black...
...that the Fab 5 of “Queer Eye” weren’t just meth-snorting drifters some casting agent stumbled across at a trashy disco in Chelsea. Each has attained an enviable degree of success within his respective field: Jai appeared on Broadway in Rent, Thom was named one of America’s top 100 designers by House Beautiful magazine, and the list goes on. So be honest, friend: it’s the “so-called stereotypical” behaviors that are leaving you and countless gays across the nation squirming. Maybe...