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...million members, almost six times as many as its nearest competitor, the Microsoft Network. But while the news was big, AOL had no idea the coup would so clearly signal that the company had finally arrived. As congratulatory calls poured in, AOL employees shared a moment of collective corporate shock: "Well, I guess Steve was right...
...still loves a good crisis, which is a trait that shrewd marketers have begun to tap. John Ferrell, the president of FerrellCalvillo Communications, notes that traditional feel-good campaigns for financial services have failed to nudge boomers into saving for retirement. So his New York City agency created humorous shock-tactic spots for the Alliance Capital Management group, a giant investment firm with nearly $200 billion under management. In one, a husband tells his startled wife they can't retire because they haven't saved any money and advises her to earn some by mowing neighborhood lawns. The voice-over...
...best asset of "In & Out" is Kline, who strikes the right note as the sweetly befuddled English teacher who doesn't quite know how to react once he passes out of the initial shock and denial phase. He isn't given much of a chance to do any really meaningful soul-searching-but he comes brilliantly into his own in his dance scenes, throwing the "Real men don't dance" dictum gleefully to the winds and proving once again that there's nothing sexier, for straights and gays alike, than a good dancer. Tom Selleck also scores high marks...
...blown up or simplified as necessary, we still can't wait to watch what happens when the upright Exley locks horns with Smith or goes to talk with prettyboy Vincennes whom we've up to then only known from more public appearances. People make mistakes or people shock us with coldly inhuman decisions, but things never subside into a predictable formula...
...without much plot, was propelled by a main character who never changed direction, yet had a great theme. The end of Mother Teresa's story is not the end of her order's work, which is one reason (her age is another) that her death makes one sad without shock...