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...it’s not even about the videos. The New Yorker recently reported that the number of music videos on the channel that begot them dropped by a third between 1998 and 2000. Numbers aside, witness the atrocity that was the 2001 MTV Video Awards: The Spike Jonze-directed video for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice” was clearly shafted when “Lady Marmalade” was awarded best video of the year. Apparently not even the sight of everyone’s favourite perennial film psycho shaking his booty...
...rising rate! This is the sort of spike that?s supposed to scare consumers into thinking recession, and bringing one on by acting accordingly. Read headline - close wallet...
...TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl tells us that statistically - going back 40 years - there?s no immediate causal link between a reported spike in the unemployment number and decreased consumer spending. Scary news affects consumer confidence and often that shows up in their spending habits. But not for a few months down the line; for September, anyway, the people with jobs are likely spend, and the bottom line is still that more than 95 percent of the work force that wants a job still has one. (Even if maybe the new one pays a little less...
Other Square cellular dealers haveexperienced a similar spike in sales. By midday yesterday, Radio Shack sold out of three phones—all of the models covered by the Sprint special...
...latter with Adaptation, from the Being John Malkovich team of Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze. Meanwhile, we shouldn't rush to judge Cage or devalue his recent work. He was never one to do the expected. He took the hard way to stardom, with quirky portrayals in orphan movies. He may now be doing something even braver: anchoring serious or silly films with the haunting loneliness and eccentric rhythms that, even as a star, he can't shake. To invest his special gravity in nice-guy roles--this may be the strange quest and triumph of Nic the Nice...