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Ouch. When even plays start to talk about whether plays are irrelevant, you know this is an art form in trouble. Yet the irony is that these lines are spoken in a play that is drawing near sellout crowds on Broadway and at the end of a season in which serious dramas have made a remarkable comeback. The new shows this season with the toughest tickets aren't the big splashy musicals (most of them were big splashy busts) but straight plays--especially revivals of two old-fashioned, slow-moving classics, Death of a Salesman and The Iceman Cometh...
...seem quite as funny--maybe it's harder to laugh at something that happened in your own time. Then again, with articles such as "Homeless Catch on to 'Grunge' Trend" (describing a man without a job: "'Right now, I'm on disability,' he says, echoing the anti-mainstream, 'no sellout' ethos of bands like Pearl Jam and Nirvana") and "New President Feels Nation's Pain, Breasts," maybe...
Eggers got his start at Might magazine, which was famous for such cover stories as "Are Black People Cooler Than White People?" In Might's "Sellout issue," every page of the magazine, including the cover, was sold to a corporate sponsor and the record reviews were written by record company PR departments. When Might folded after 16 issues Eggers was courted by mainstream magazines and spent a year as editor-at-large at Esquire. Put off by the industry's obsession with celebrity and circulation, Eggers left Esquire to start McSweeney's, a quarterly journal stocked with quirky pieces that...
...Senators defeated the Red Wings for the second time in five days, beating the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions 4-1 yesterday in front of a sellout crowd of 18,500 at the Corel Centre...
Rock star David Bowie performed for a sellout crowd last year on Wall Street, and now dozens of impressed entertainers want to play that venue. Don't look for them in any concert hall, though. The show consists of a financial maneuver that, if bankers get their way, will explode in popularity in the next year or two. It could spawn a new type of mutual fund that fans might find hard to resist...