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...publicity stunt...
...Last month's billion-dollar lowball/trial balloon to the record labels was more publicity stunt than settlement offer, designed to keep the site in the headlines and the users flocking to the service to get in a few more downloads before the free music stops. Now the site is up to 64 million registered users - about a fourth of the U.S. population, to put it in perspective. And Napster knows that not too many of them will be sticking around for the strictly legal New Artist Program...
...only a director but an actor, Yuen has shown he can take punishment as well as dish it out. It's a family affair: as a boy he appeared with his father in the old Wong Fei-hung dramas. The brothers have often collaborated as actors and stunt coordinators, billed as the Yuen Clan. In The Miracle Fighters, a delirious carnival of a film that plays like a ber-Cirque du Soleil, Yat-choh is the young hero, Cheung-yan a cranky lady wizard, Sunny the nasty Sorcerer Bat and Brandy a clown-face warrior condemned to live...
...Even Galliano's most outrageous stunt-dressing models in newspapers and bags as part of his homeless collection-failed to sway Toledano's faith in him. "Some haute couture people are doing stuff that's not creative," the executive sniffs. "They're doing ready-to-wear." In the days after the collection, Toledano met with the groups representing the homeless who had protested the show to explain to them the importance of creative freedom...
...cuts, certainly, are no longer the irresistible political catnip they once were - perhaps IRS-bashing, for years the only political stunt more popular than cutting taxes, is due for its own reassignment in the cultural landscape...