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...make the tough choices. Of the nearly 16 million people who had nothing better to do than phone in votes for one of two finalists on Fox TV's American Idol, an overwhelming majority opted for substance over style, anointing former waitress KELLY CLARKSON over onetime door-to-door salesman Justin Guarini. The show followed 10 would-be stars as they vied for a recording contract by singing hoary pop standards, with the TV audience eliminating one contestant a week. Down to the last two, it looked as though the electorate might be swayed by Justin's topiary hair...
...only the wood-chipping gear that exudes testosterone. Just visit the Waste News booth, where salesman David Martin invites attendees to maneuver a radio-controlled trash truck around a scaled-down city street. "We don't care if people want to knock the kids down," he says. "That's up to them." (He's joking, of course.) The odd part is, all this bluster shares airspace with a kind of quiet confidence--the kind that comes from an industry that's "recession resilient," says Bruce Parker, president of the Environmental Industry Associations, the industry trade group. The trash trade collected...
Raised by a bookkeeper mother and tire-salesman father in Brockton, Mass., Feinberg was the family ham. He went to the University of Massachusetts with thoughts of becoming an actor until he considered the merits of a weekly paycheck and enrolled at New York University Law School. After clerking for New York Court of Appeals Judge Stanley Fuld in 1970, Feinberg landed a job in the office of Senator Edward Kennedy, and then took a job with a big firm. Feinberg was on his way to becoming "just another Washington lawyer," as he puts it, until a bit of acting...
...little bit like Jean-Marie Messier myself. Why not give it a try? For more than a year, I only wore socks with holes in them, just like Jean-Marie. I also ridiculously parted my hair on the side and wore the permanent, ingratiating smile of a used-car salesman. I even made desperate efforts to avoid being Sophie Marceau's lover (which of course, Messier has denied). Yes, perhaps I would have liked to be Messier - the all-powerful king, propped up by a conniving board until his company's stock began to fall, at which point...
DIED. ROBERT WHITEHEAD, 86, debonair theatrical producer who brought Death of a Salesman, Medea and Orpheus Descending to Broadway and managed to make them commercial successes; in Pound Ridge, N.Y. Whitehead cast the greats, from John Gielgud to Katharine Hepburn...