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...ticket wickets," it pleased the rubes, not to mention the movie exhibitors who made money from them. "What a joy to see on a warm romantic Kansas City night," Bev Winter, a Kansas City film broker, wrote to Meyer - "a full drive-in with all those cars shakin' and breakin...
...sensibilities matured over the decades, Berlin adjusted some songs to avoid offense. The 1927 "Shakin' the Blues Away" begins: "Every darkie believes that trouble won't stay if you shake it away." Later it was changed to "Everybody believes..." "Puttin' on the Ritz" was originally about Manhattan whites going uptown: "Why don't you go where Harlem sits/ Puttin' on the Ritz/ Spangled gowns upon a bevy/ Of high browns from down the levee/ All misfits/ Puttin' on the Ritz." By the time Fred Astaire sang the tune in 1946, it had become another of Berlin's twittin'-the-rich...
...efficient ways to handle these cases," says Frederick Tecce of Philadelphia, a former U.S. attorney who now takes patent cases. Tecce represents designer Eric Hicks, who has sued Nike over popular TV commercials in which basketballers simultaneously dance and dribble. Hicks says he created the technique he calls "Shakin'" to promote his clothing line, Game Over. "Now, when we try to do it, people say, 'Oh, you copied Nike,'" he says. Nike spokesman Scott Reames says the case is without merit...
...they would have warned us like Intel did. The bad scenario is that, well, they didn't. And that six months after those high-flyers like Yahoo, Amazon, Cisco, AOL got shot down in April and for the most part stayed down, there's still a whole lot of shakin...
...added cheeky touches of humor (a sample of a woman moaning "Oh Groove Armada" had the crowd visibly laughing). Of course, some self-promotion was in order, and indeed it seemed to be what the crowd expected. The upbeat tracks from Vertigo were aired out, with the cheeky "shakin' that ass" line of their own "I See You Baby" receiving the biggest reaction of the night...