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Reruns and rentals apparently aren't enough for TV lovers these days. Consumers shelled out more than $2 billion last year to purchase DVDs of shows ranging from Seinfeld to The Simpsons to Sex and the City. And the TV industry is loving it. Historically beholden to fickle ratings and ad spending, studios are reveling in a new revenue stream for which costs are low (old show, new box) and profit margins high--as much as 50%, according to Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen. By 2008, Cohen projects, the business will grow to $3.9 billion annually. The biggest beneficiaries...
...Grand Rapidians rallied around the little indie and came to embrace the actor who plays the title role of an eccentric uncle from Italy. With money raised by Nino's Nieces and Nephews, a grass-roots group that includes some 900 fans, the actor Pierrino Mascarino (whose credits include Seinfeld and Murder, She Wrote) flew in from L.A. to raise the profile of the movie even more in the city's schools, churches and senior centers. "Our goal was to see if all of Grand Rapids would love it as much as we did," says Billie Sue Berends, a community...
...showrooms any time soon. But some of the technology on the market is still amazing. For the right price, you can buy an electronic substitute for common sense or a little work. In the time that some of these gizmos save, you could squeeze in another episode of Seinfeld. FM has explored the farthest reaches of the Internet to compile a list of the useful, intriguing or merely wacky...
...Talk about life imitating art. A new chain of American caf?s?modeled on the kitchen in the U.S. sitcom Seinfeld?just sells cereal. Cereality caf?s have cabinets stuffed with 33 types, along with 34 toppings, from dried blueberries to praline coconut. Customers pay $4 a bowl, then choose and pour their own milk: soy, flavored, skim or whole. At the Tempe, Arizona, flagship "Cereologists"?pajama-clad servers?offer plain old cornflakes as well as such fancy concoctions as Devil Made Me Do It, which combines Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms with chocolate milk and malt balls...
...TECH: Seinfeld comes...