Word: taylorism
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...artiste-savant act fool you. Moby is extremely shrewd when it comes to the pursuit of profit. After his 1999 album, Play, stalled on the charts because it couldn't break through niche-driven radio playlists, Moby and longtime managers Marci Weber and Barry Taylor devised a remarkable strategy in which all 18 album cuts were licensed for commercial use. Songs from Play showed up in ads for Nordstrom and Nissan, in an Oliver Stone movie and--egad!--on Veronica's Closet before finally muscling their way onto radio in between Limp Bizkit and Britney Spears...
...regret that. But one must also be forgiving of oneself. I grew up on the values of the movies of my day. An impressionable child, I didn't just watch them; I drank them. I doted on stars like Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Robert Taylor, Cary Grant. They were "naughty," and naughty was In. My entire life was influenced by their images--the temptress, the seductress, the bad guy onscreen. The messages I got were that relationships were flighty and based on physical beauty. My life became these movies...
...downward spiral. Those who pick the bones of disaster were out in force. White gangs smashed a Pakistani-owned restaurant and service station. TV crews roamed the city seeking footage of more trouble. At Lister Park BMW, looted and charred, portable toilets arrived for the demolition crew. Harry Taylor, the general manager, wouldn't say whether they would rebuild, but didn't sound optimistic. "We had some fantastic years here," he said, in the tone of a man about to retire. Sajaad Waris isn't going anywhere. He owns the gleaming, marble-walled Punjab Halal Meat store across the street...
...Niro, 57, who signed on first for $15 million, admits to having "second thoughts" about the script from the very beginning. Although Danny Taylor--the first of several scribes to work on the film--had written it as a breezy caper, Oz assured De Niro that it would be rewritten as a more character-driven piece. Oz got the 77-year-old Brando on board, paying him about $3 million for three weeks of work, after a couple of meetings at the actor's home. And Norton, 31, says he joined the cast simply because "if someone called...
...Unlike Taylor, Gyorffy has proven herself in major international competition in the past. In her highest world place ever, Gyorffy took fifth at the IAAF Indoor Championships at Lisbon in March...