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...other gripe is that the new online links tend to funnel users to Microsoft services. Setting up a Microsoft Hotmail or MSN account to run in the slick Outlook software is a snap; doing it with non-Microsoft providers is a chore. Highlight an address in Word, and you can map it online--using Microsoft Expedia. Type a stock symbol, and you can get a live price--from Microsoft Money Central. You get the idea...
Every May, TV-network heads invite thousands of advertising execs to the Manhattan upfronts to watch clips of the new fall shows, then hobnob at sybaritic parties. The goal: to sell ads "up front" with slick talk and boundless ratings predictions. It is a capitalist orgy where art and commerce have one too many vodka tonics and end up in bed. I swallowed the bombast (and the finger food) and lived to tell the tale...
...visitors, for instance, will find their hackles raised by the inclusion of those essential emblems of California street art, the custom car and the hot rod. But if anything, the trouble is that the show seems rather weak on them. Good that it includes Road Agent, a fabulously slick tomato of a chariot built and lacquered by Ed ("Big Daddy") Roth, dean of car customizers, back in 1963. But if there's one custom job you'd expect to see in a show about the growth of a California ethos but don't get a hint...
Barrett is underwhelmed by today's New Age celebrities. Dr. Andrew Weil, for example, is "very slick but makes glaring errors and hardly ever admits anything is quackery. I call him a 'rubber ducky.'" Deepak Chopra he dismisses as a purveyor of "Ayurvedic mumbo jumbo." (Chopra, for his part, calls Barrett "a self-appointed vigilante for the suppression of curiosity...
...Devotees like Sworder have made Thomas Kinkade the best-selling living artist in history. At least that's how his slick marketing machine bills him, along with the trademarked moniker, the Painter of Light. Kinkade is also the leading "lifestyle brand" of Media Arts Group, Inc. (MAGI), which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. With nearly $140 million in sales and profits of $14.2 million last year, it claims to be the largest art publisher in the world. The company's stable includes three other artists, but Kinkade alone generates more than 95% of MAGI's gross revenue...