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...Time Machine works because it doesn't just take delight in lampooning the deserving '80s, it reminds us that our iPhone-carrying, Red Bull-swilling, video game-playing culture will soon enough make a fine target as well. The times are always changing. Walking into their ski lodge circa 1986 - just as the guys are beginning to realize that they have time-traveled, clued in by indoor cigarette smoking, a "Where's the Beef" T-shirt and Ronald Reagan live on TV - Nick grabs a woman and demands, "What color is Michael Jackson?" Her well, duh response - "Black!" - sends...
...million to launch on New York's main stages these days. Musicals like Wicked can cost as much as $15 million, but they tend to draw bigger audiences than dramatic plays. The higher production costs are driving up ticket prices on Broadway and pushing out the time it takes productions to be profitable. Many plays can run for six months without turning a profit. Musicals take twice as long to get to the black. (See the best business deals...
...instead, Enron on an average night only fills about half the seats, it could take as long as five months before the play turns a profit. If only a quarter of the seats sell for full price, the play, much like the company it dramatizes, will end up being a financial bust...
...Powell may be subtly urging the Administration to adopt a more flexible position on Iran, but some powerful domestic interest groups are urging it to do just the opposite. AIPAC activists swarmed Capitol Hill on Tuesday to lobby legislators to push the Obama Administration to take an even tougher line on Tehran. So, as things stand, Secretary Clinton - or whomever the Administration taps to address next year's AIPAC policy conference - may not have much progress to report on the Iran front...
...member Thilo Sarrazin warned that if Greece cannot pay its bills, "it should do what every debtor has to do and file for insolvency." And the fiery Greek Deputy Prime Minister, Theodoros Pangalos, accused Germany of betting on rising Greek bond yields. "In allowing monetary and credit institutions to take part in this miserable game, people in Germany are making money," Pangalos said. (See more about the E.U.'s bailout of Greece...