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...Twisted Transistor Talk about a blank canvas. This retro FM radio from Dutch studio wouter Geense won't even function until properly adorned. Grab a hanger for the antenna, trinkets for the volume and tuning knobs and drill your own set of holes for the speaker. Then sit back and enjoy the static. woutergeense.nl...
...artist with a reputation for lofty concepts, ethereal soundscapes and evanescent light shows, Brian Eno's west London studio is a place of reassuring solids. Boxes neatly marked "screws," "measuring tools," "transistors" and "plaster" jostle for wall space with meter upon meter[an error occurred while processing this directive] of books, CDs and DVDs. Above a row of keyboards and computers, five boom boxes hang neatly in line. Suspended from the ceiling is a jerry-built lightbox of perspex and wood. Here and there lie bits of dead projects and pieces of experiments still in gestation. Amid all this stuff...
...considered project." RUPERT MURDOCH, News Corp. CEO, announcing the cancellation of a TV interview with O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman. Murdoch also canceled Simpson's book, If I Did It "It is possible to use studio makeup to have a person look like me." ZAHRA AMIR EBRAHIMI, Iranian soap-opera star, denying that she was the woman in a sex tape that has caused a scandal in conservative Tehran. Ebrahimi claims the tape was fabricated by her ex-fiancé, who faces up to three years...
...financial side, along with cutting back the number of deals with independent producers, Sony kicked the habit of blithely paying stratospheric salaries to marquee names. That strategy worked in past years if the star vehicles achieved blockbuster status. But when theater attendance plummeted and studios had to hike marketing spending to combat competition from iPods and Internet downloads last year, profit margins on such projects vaporized. In negotiating Cameron Diaz' s salary for next month' s romantic comedy,The Holiday, for instance, sources say Sony persuaded the actress--who got a reported $20 million to headline its Charlie's Angels...
...Sony's tinkering clearly worked this year. But that doesn't mean achieving consistent success is about to get any easier for any studio. "You try to insure that you're as well positioned as you can be," says one movie executive. "But because the environment is so competitive and vola> tile, there's no predictability anymore...