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...that?s Indi-tainment. Pretty much everywhere else - including places like France, Britain and Hong Kong, where decades ago musicals were a prominent, sometimes predominant form - the musical is dead. Nowhere is it more dormant, of course, than where it all started, in Hollywood...
Cybiko (with new MP3 attachment) CYBIKO, $129 For the kid who's jealous of Mom's Palm, the "inter-tainment" PDA goes a step further: it sends messages wirelessly to other Cybikos...
Citing suffocating competition in the "eater-tainment" business and its own overaggressive expansion, Planet Hollywood is closing nine U.S. locations ahead of a planned filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Gone are its glittering towers of sterno in Chicago, Houston, Miami, Phoenix, Fort Lauderdale, Indianapolis, Maui, Gurnee, Ill., and Costa Mesa, Calif.; the chain will also upgrade several of its 70-plus remaining restaurants worldwide and revamp its menus, according to CEO Robert Earl. (No more Ramburgers?) The chain is digging deep for the extra cash ? its two largest shareholders and a trust for Earl's own children have agreed...
...Hard Rock Caf? model, the tourist-trap turf has been invaded by everyone from sports figures (All-Star Caf?) to bikers (Harley Davidson Caf?) and wrestlers (the WWF restaurant, coming soon to New York?s legendary Paramount Theater). Does PH?s retreat signal the start of the great eater-tainment shakeout? One can only hope...
...that more and more merchants are aiming to achieve. From department stores to specialty chains to boutiques, retailers are deciding that the way to get customers into the stores is to make the shopping environment less forbidding, more theatrical and more fun. Some call it "retail-tainment" and hope it will counter the rising threat from Internet shopping sites, low-priced outlet malls and the feeling among time-pressed shoppers that fighting your way through the crowds (particularly during the busy holiday season...