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...another bad part does unfold, it's a safe bet the pent-up media will not leave Spears alone. "There are countless journalists bemoaning the fact that Britney is so well behaved these days," says Steve Dennis, author of the new biography Britney Spears: Inside the Dream. That said, he adds, if she can hold it together, Spears will have achieved her greatest success. "If this redemption has some longevity to it, then it will be one of show business's all- time comebacks," Dennis says. "She was staring into the abyss. But right now she's showing the world...
Originating in the UK in 1991 and moving to the US in 1996, the “Stomp” travelling circus has been putting on speedy sound spectacles for the last 18 years. And it still hasn’t gotten old. Directors and co-creators Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell are always coming up with new ideas to keep “Stomp” alive and kicking. Until October 18, the show is being performed in the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, a venue incredible in itself...
...Steve Brooker, 6 ft. 5 in. former professional skateboarder, sub-3-hr.-marathon runner, survivor of multiple strokes and the self-appointed tutelary spirit of the Thames, thinks he has found something. To me it looks like mud, but I'm not in a position to argue. Brooker, 48, is a member of the Mudlarks, a society of amateur archaeologists who are licensed by the Port of London Authority to scavenge the banks of the Thames for historical artifacts. Because of Brooker's oversize frame, his talent for major discoveries and his overall awesomeness, he is known by admirers...
...years into the Great Recession, it's time to face the truth: optimism feels good, really good, but it turns out to be the methamphetamine of run-amok American capitalism. Meth induces a "Superman syndrome." Optimism fed into what Steve Eisman, a banking analyst who foresaw the crash, calls "hedge-fund disease," characterized by "megalomania, plus narcissism, plus solipsism" and the belief that "to think something is to make it happen." The meth-head loses his teeth and his mind; the madcap optimists of Wall Street lost something like $10 trillion worth of pension funds, life savings and retirement accounts...
Once the ghostwriter has finished writing, the task of rushing a book into print falls to the publisher. If a newsy or highly anticipated manuscript arrives on schedule, says Steve Culpepper, executive director of editorial at Globe Pequot Press, editors huddle with sales and marketing staff members, among others, to determine whether it's big enough to be worth crashing out quickly. The company's president makes the final call. (See where Sarah Palin is going next...