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...scrambled to follow. The move could not save the ailing PC company's retail stores--188 will be closed this year--but it has given Gateway a chance to reinvent itself in consumer electronics. Analysts expect prices to fall even further this year, driving up sales. According to Lee Simonson, senior vice president for consumer electronics at Best Buy, $2,999 was the "breakthrough price...
Flatness may prove even more important than picture quality in getting consumers to trade up. Best Buy's Simonson notes that until now "the form factor of the television has never changed. It's always been a very big product." The slim profile of plasma and LCD TVs is finally attracting the attention of a group largely ignored by consumer-electronics peddlers: women. "What really makes a $3,000 TV sell is that the consumer can do things with this space that they couldn't do before," Milne says. "It's a furniture experience more than a television experience...
...largest cell-phone makers are cleaning house. Motorola's Christopher Galvin, grandson of founder Paul Galvin, resigned as CEO in September after six years at the helm. The company then decided to dump its semiconductor arm. Then Helsinki-based Nokia shuffled top management positions, bringing in Rick Simonson as chief financial officer, the first Yank to crack Nokia's upper ranks...
...Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater last fall presented writer-director Eric Simonson's big, imaginatively staged adaptation of Moby Dick; there was no whale, but a surprising amount of Herman Melville's imposing novel made it onstage. (Adaptations of epic novels, like John Irving's Cider House Rules, have a habit of flopping in New York.) Houston's enterprising Alley Theater last fall staged a fine production of The General from America, Richard Nelson's brooding, against-the-grain, surprisingly convincing historical drama about Benedict Arnold. (The play later opened off-Broadway, where the critics, predictably, dissed...
Haspiel uses thick, brushed lines for a dramatic black and white effect that feels right for these urban tales of heroin O.D.s and underground parties that turn into near-orgies. He worked as an apprentice to several industry luminaries like Walt Simonson and has a style that unites personal expression with mainstream polish. In the funniest story, about a feud with a roommate that degenerates into mutual bedlinen soiling, Haspiel leaps over his friend like Superman...