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When poker took off in the U.S. after the Travel Channel began televising tournaments in 2003, PartyPoker was holding aces in the hole. The contests, with peephole cameras under the table capturing the action and graphics showing each player's odds of winning, proved a smash hit for the cable channel. PartyGaming paid a bargain $7,000 per 20-sec. spot to advertise on the show. "We saw our market share go up from 20% to 50% in a fairly short period," Bhargava says. PartyGaming spent a whopping $52 million in the first half of this year to entice paying...
Having made the first movie musical smash since Grease 24 years before, Marshall was ready to try something old (since Geisha is also a star-is-born saga, like 42nd Street) that was, for him, radically new (a drama set in a foreign culture he knew little about). "As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years. And I thought, 'This is that for me.' The scariest part was being able to be educated enough about Japan and the world of geisha...
...gods must be smiling. Japan's national sport, which began as an ancient form of religious worship, is muscling its way around the modern world. Today the grand champion of Japan hails from Mongolia, and as U.S. team coach Yoshisada Yonezuka puts it, "Big guys smash into each other" in sumo rings from Poland to Brazil. Elite-level sumo came to the U.S. for the first time in 20 years with a tournament this month in Las Vegas. Now there's the Sumo Ultimate Masters Organization (S.U.M.O.), a new U.S.-based league with global aspirations and the backing...
...social skills, on the other hand, rapidly receded. Beethoven squabbled with his friends, and he tried to smash the head of one of his noble patrons with a chair. Fortunately for him, the aristocracy was forgiving. They gave him a generous stipend that plunged in value after the occupation and departure of French soldiers in 1809. That year, his prodigious works slowed to a trickle after he fell for a banker’s wife, Antonie Bretano, whom he referred to as “my Immortal Beloved...
...pass to sophomore receiver Joe Murt got them closer, but another O’Hagan scramble—this time for 12 yards—broke within the Brown five-yard line, setting up junior tailback Clifton Dawson for a short smash-mouth touchdown and sophomore kicker Matt Schindel for the game-tying...